knob celery

Questions about knob celery

What does knob celery mean?

knob celery means "grown for its thickened edible aromatic root".

What is another word for knob celery?

Close synonyms include celeriac, celery root, root celery, turnip-rooted celery, Apium graveolens rapaceum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is knob celery a common word?

knob celery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.