celery

«celery» in Mova's school dictionary: a vegetable with long pale-green crunchy stalks and leafy… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (celery — uncountable; a stick of celery)

meaning for a pupil

Celery is a vegetable with long pale-green crunchy stalks and leafy tops, eaten raw or cooked. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, celery is used in salads, soups and snacks with dips or peanut butter. In science lessons, celery is used in a famous experiment: put a stalk in coloured water and watch the colour travel up its tubes (xylem), showing how plants carry water. In food labels, celery is one of the allergens that must be listed in the UK and Europe.

examples

• Mum chopped celery for the soup. tree →
• Celery is crunchy and full of water. tree →
• We put a stick of celery in blue water and the leaves turned blue. tree →
• Ants on a log is celery with peanut butter and raisins. tree →
• This salad contains celery. tree →
• Celery seeds are used as a spice. tree →

note

Uncountable: some celery, a stick or a stalk of celery, not a celery. Myth: celery has negative calories is not true; it simply has very few. Celery is a listed allergen.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «celery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.