smallage
nounEtymology From Middle English smalache, equivalent to small + ache (“celery, parsley”).
1
Celery in its wild uncultivated form.
- Chop the smallage exceeding small and put it in a good half hour before you are to take your posset from the fire: You are to season your Gruel with a little Salt, at the due time; and you may put in a little Nutmeg, and Mace to it.1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, A Garden of Herbs: Being a Practical Handbook to the Making of an Old English Herb Garden, page 123:
- Synonyms
- march, leaf celery