The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tape \Tape\, n. [AS. t[ae]ppe a fillet. Cf. Tapestry, Tippet.]
A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.
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A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape.
Red tape. See under Red.
Tape grass (Bot.), a plant ( Vallisneria spiralis) with long ribbonlike leaves, growing in fresh or brackish water; -- called also fresh-water eelgrass, and, in Maryland, wild celery.
Tape needle. See Bodkin, n., 4.
WordNet
n. herb of Europe and temperate Asia [syn: Apium graveolens]
submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia [syn: tape grass, eelgrass, Vallisneria spiralis]
Wikipedia
Wild celery is a common name for several plants. It can refer to:
- Wild growing forms of celery, Apium graveolens
- Angelica archangelica, cultivated as a vegetable and medicinal plant
- Lovage, Levisticum officinale, sometimes known as wild celery
- Trachyspermum roxburghianum, a plant used as a spice in South and Southeast Asia
- Vallisneria americana, an aquatic plant in the Hydrocharitaceae family
Usage examples of "wild celery".
Grumm made excellent wild celery and herb soup then experimented on some barley scones.
Through the eyes of the young gorilla she saw that he was alone now in the forest, peacefully sitting in the middle of a clump of wild celery, calmly stripping the branches clean and eating the stalks, leaves and all.
They have also occasionally been eaten in mistake, either for wild celery or water parsnip, with very serious results, great agony, sickness, convulsions, or even death resulting.