Definition of Apium graveolens

1. Noun. Herb of Europe and temperate Asia.

Exact synonyms: Wild Celery
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Apium, Genus Apium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apium Graveolens

Aphrophora
Aphrophora saratogensis
Aphyllanthaceae
Aphyllanthes
Aphyllophorales
Apia
Apician
Apidae
Apios
Apios americana
Apios tuberosa
Apis mellifera
Apis mellifera adansonii
Apis mellifera scutellata
Apium
Apium graveolens
Apium graveolens dulce
Apium graveolens rapaceum
Aplectrum
Aplectrum hyemale
Aplodontia
Aplodontia rufa
Aplodontiidae
Aplysia
Aplysia punctata
Aplysiidae
Apocalypse
Apocalypses
Apocalypticism
Apocrypha

Literary usage of Apium graveolens

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Vegetable Materia Medica of Western India by William Dymock (1885)
"79312- apium graveolens, Linn., Eng. Bot. xvii., t. 1210. The fruit. Vernacular. ... Sprengel refers two of these to apium graveolens, viz., ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Introduced from Europe. Native of the Mediterranean region. Leaves of some cultivated forms crisped. Summer. Ache. 2. apium graveolens L. Celery. ..."

3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"(2) Smyrnium Olusatrum, L.—' In the Isle of Wight, ... by a strange confusion of ideas, it shares with the genuine apium graveolens the appellation of wild ..."

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