From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcelerycel‧e‧ry /ˈseləri/ noun [uncountable] 
HBPDFFa vegetable with long pale green stems that you can eat cooked or uncooked a stick of celery
HBPDFFa vegetable with long pale green stems that you can eat cooked or uncooked a stick of celeryExamples from the Corpus
celery• To make lentils, in a medium-sized saucepan, heat oil and saute carrot, onion, and celery until lightly colored.• Add mushrooms, carrot, turnip, and celery, and cook for 1 minute.• Eastern Promise - cooked, diced chicken, celery and walnuts mixed together with curried mayonnaise. 7.• On the peat of Chat Moss near Manchester celery is a special crop.• If desired, add nuts, celery, 131 Remove from heat and skim off excess fat.• a stalk of celery• Remove the parsley and lovage or celery and lightly process soup in a food processor, or put through a food mill.• Add some celery and apple to the shallot dressing and spoon around the guinea fowl terrine.stick of celery• Place the stem of a stick of celery in some dyed water and leave it for a few hours.• If you must have a snack, keep to fruit or a stick of celery.• Place a stick of celery across one end of each slice.• After all, there's nothing particularly comforting about a cold stick of celery, is there?Origin celery (1600-1700) Italian dialect seleri, from Late Latin selinon “parsley”, from Greek 