smallage means celery in its wild uncultivated form. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.
Etymology
From Middle English smalache, equivalent to small + ache (“celery, parsley”).
noun
- 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.”