smallage

[ smaw-lij ]

/ ˈsmɔ lɪdʒ /

the celery, Apium graveolens, especially in its wild state.

Origin of smallage

1250–1300; Middle English smalege, smalache, equivalent to smale small + ache parsley < Old French < Latin apium celery, parsley

The seeds of bishops weed, smallage, stone parsley, and wild carrot.

Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II |Arnold Cooley
Chop the smallage exceeding small, and put it in a good half hour before you are to take your possnet from the fire.

The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened |Kenelm Digby
Take the young sprouts of smallage, wash and drain them till perfectly dry.

The New England Cook Book, or Young Housekeeper's Guide |Anonymous
Take young sprouts of smallage—wash and drain them till perfectly dry.

The American Housewife |Anonymous

To this quantity put as much Smallage as you buy for a peny, which maketh it strong of the HerPage 138b, and very green.

The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened |Kenelm Digby

smallage

/ (ˈsmɔːlɪdʒ) /

an archaic name for wild celery

C13: from earlier smalache, from smal small + ache wild celery, from Old French, from Latin apium