celery salt
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- noun
- /ˈsɛləri sɔlt/
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sal de apio
- For a flavorful twist, sprinkle some celery salt on your popcorn while it's still warm.
- a teaspoon of celery salt
- celery salt and pepper
- celery salt and paprika
Examples
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If nitrates are "ok," then I'd say it's likely just as ok to eat the nitrates in the celery salt.
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To make a zesty Bloody Mary, mix the tomato juice with celery salt, Worcestershire sauce, and a squeeze of lime.
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Also, they sprinkle quite a bit of celery salt on top of the finished dog.
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In a large bowl, add the celery salt and poultry seasoning along with a couple of
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1 tablespoon celery salt
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Nope, I'd rather continue to eat organic bacon from healthy-fed pork, even with celery salt, than conventional bacon with nitrates.
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In a Caesar salad dressing, a teaspoon of celery salt enhances the overall flavor.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'celery' (the vegetable) + 'salt' (seasoning) yields a seasoning made with celery, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it is a salt flavored or mixed with celery. This noun+noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic naming pattern for flavored salts and seasonings, making it transparently understandable.
Etymology
Celery salt comes from a simple idea: people mixed ground celery seeds with salt to keep the celery taste when fresh celery was not available. So the name means 'salt with celery flavor', and that is why we use it to add a celery taste to food.