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smallage

smallage noun: celery in its wild uncultivated form.

Noun

smallage (uncountable)

  1. 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

Synonyms of smallage

Origin of smallage

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

Questions about smallage

What does smallage mean?
Smallage means celery in its wild uncultivated form.
What part of speech is smallage?
Smallage is a noun.

Words near smallage in the dictionary

  1. small-world network
  2. small-world networks
  3. small-world phenomena
  4. small-world phenomenon
  5. small-worldness
  6. smallage
  7. smallball
  8. Smallbone
  9. Smallbones
  10. smallbore
  11. smallbores

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