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pascal celery

pascal celery

7.3
A common green celery with crunchy stalks sold in shops
  • noun
  • /ˈpæskəl ˈsɛləri/
translation icon : apio pascal
  • She prefers the crisp taste of pascal celery in her salads.

Examples

  • The recipe called for chopped pascal celery to add flavor and crunch.

  • I bought some pascal celery at the farmer's market.

  • Most supermarket celery in the United States is actually pascal celery.

  • The pascal celery is fresh and crunchy.

  • Most supermarket celery in the United States is actually pascal celery.

  • The recipe called for chopped pascal celery to add flavor and crunch.

  • She prefers the crisp taste of pascal celery in her salads.

Synonyms

Paschal celery
vspascal celery
7.2

A green celery variety that has crisp stalks and is grown for food

is the same variety but differs only in spelling of the name

Surface Forms

pascal celery singular
pascal celeries plural

Morphology

pascal + celery

Although 'Pascal' is a proper name and not a common adjective, the structure ProperName + noun is a transparent, productive pattern in English signalling a cultivar or variety; combined with the known noun 'celery' a B1 learner can infer it refers to a type of celery. This compositional inference is cross-linguistically common (names used to label varieties), so the overall meaning is directly derivable from the constituents.

Etymology

Pascal celery is named after a person or farmer called Pascal who helped grow and sell this green, crunchy type of celery. So pascal celery today means 'the common green celery sold in shops'.