wild celery

Questions about wild celery

What does wild celery mean?

wild celery means "herb of Europe and temperate Asia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for wild celery?

Close synonyms include Apium graveolens, tape grass, eelgrass, Vallisneria spiralis. 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 wild celery a common word?

wild celery is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.