smallage

noun

1. Celery in its wild uncultivated form.

   uncountable

   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.

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry smallage (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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