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smallage en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English smalache, equivalent to small + ache (“celery, parsley”).

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Celery 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 123:

Synonyms

march · leaf celery

Translations (5)

nl bladselderij (wild celery) · fr céleri à couper (wild celery) · nl snijselderij (wild celery) · enm merche (wild celery) · ang mereċe (wild celery)