Meanings
- uncountableCelery in its wild uncultivated form.
Chop the smallage exceeding small and put it in a good half hour before you are to take your posset from the fire: You are to season your Gruel with a little Salt, at the due time; and you may put in a little Nutmeg, and Mace to it.
1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, A Garden of Herbs: Being a Practical Handbook to the Making of an Old English Herb Garden, page 123Synonyms: march, leaf celery
Synonyms & antonyms
nounCelery in its wild uncultivated form.
Origin
- Middle Englishsmalache
- Englishsmallage
From Middle English smalache, equivalent to small + ache (“celery, parsley”).
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Dutch snijselderij, bladselderij
- snijselderijwild celery
- bladselderijwild celery
French céleri à couper
- céleri à couperwild celery
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