root celery

Questions about root celery

What does root celery mean?

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

What is another word for root celery?

Close synonyms include celeriac, celery root, knob 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 root celery a common word?

root 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.