Plural of celery; multiple plants or bunches of the leafy green vegetable with long, edible stalks.
From 'celery' plus regular English plural '-ies.' Celery itself comes from Greek 'selinon,' which passed through Old Italian 'selero' and French before becoming English 'celery' in the 17th century.
Celery is basically the vegetable that time forgot—ancient Greeks and Romans knew about it, medieval monks grew it, but we didn't actually eat the stalks the way we do today until Victorian cooks decided it was elegant enough for dinner.
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