celery cabbage

3.7

A vegetable with a long head and crisp stalks like celery used in East Asian cooking

noun

: col china

She added chopped celery cabbage to the stir-fry for a crisp texture and mild flavor.

Examples

The market had several fresh heads of celery cabbage on display this morning.
I bought some celery cabbage at the market.
Many Asian recipes call for celery cabbage in soups or dumplings.
Have you ever tried celery cabbage in a stir-fry?
Many Asian recipes call for celery cabbage in soups or dumplings.
She added chopped celery cabbage to the stir-fry for a crisp texture and mild flavor.
The market had several fresh heads of celery cabbage on display this morning.

Synonyms

napa

vscelery cabbage

29 7.5

A long, pale green Chinese cabbage used in cooking

is the same plant but has crisper celery like stalks

Chinese cabbage

vscelery cabbage

1 2.3

A vegetable with long pale green leaves and thick white stalks used in Asian cooking

is similar but has crisper celery like stalks

Brassica rapa pekinensis

vscelery cabbage

Specialized

7.3

A leafy vegetable like a cabbage used in East Asian cooking

is the same vegetable but with crisper celery like stalks

pe-tsai

vscelery cabbage

8.8

A leafy vegetable like cabbage with long white stems used in Asian cooking

is the same vegetable but with crisper celery like stalks

Surface Forms

celery cabbage singular

celery cabbages plural

Morphology

celery + cabbage

The meaning is directly compositional: 'celery' modifies 'cabbage', so a learner can infer a cabbage with celery-like stalks (i.e., a cabbage that resembles or has qualities of celery). This noun–noun modification pattern is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words should be able to deduce the basic meaning.

Etymology

Celery cabbage comes from how the vegetable looks: its long, crunchy stalks remind people of celery and it forms a small head like a cabbage. So the name points to a crunchy East Asian vegetable often 'used in cooking'.