Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See arracacha.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A biennial, umbelliferous plant, Arracacia Arracacha, a native of the Apdes of northern South America. Its large, fleshy yellow roots contain from 20 to 22 per cent, of starch, and from the expressed juice of the root alcohol is made. See
arracacha .
Etymologies
- American Spanish, from Spanish, celery, from Latin apium, perhaps from apis, bee. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“While Niuris is the inspiration, Enrique is the experienced chef and together they create an eclectic range of dishes, including falafels, pato confitado (duck confit), lomito de res con camarones y espuma de apio al olivo (sirloin steak with shrimp and celery mousse), conejo al vino (rabbit in wine) to cerdo asado (roast pork).”
“Perejil = parsley, apio = celery, acelgas = sort of swiss chard”
“I believe parsley is perejil, celery is apio and acelgas is swiss chard.”
“Sam's and Wal-Mart sell a powdered jugo verde mix, called "Jugo Verde", which contains pina, apio, nopal, and perejil .... fits right into my protein drink every morning.”
“No es culpa del apio, de las nueces, de la química ...”
“Una nueva forma de Fusarium solani, patogeno del apio (Arracacia xanthorrhiza) en Venezuela.”
“Resultados preliminares de la introduccion de material clonal de apio criollo (Arracacia xanthorrhiza Banc.) en los Andes venezolanos.”
“Identificacin de una bacteriosis en apio (Arracacia xanthorrhiza).”
“Silenus vero libro fecundo Rerum Sy - racufanarum ait, apud Sardos efle herbam quandam dulcemj apio fimilem, quam qui gullarinc, & maxillas & carnes fuas prcemor - dere.”
“copying files is so limited: i suppose if all you wanted to do was to replicate a file (or any other construct) you could simply dd it via pipes (as buffers) to move it at speeds Windows can only dream about, but there is so much more you can do w/o sacrificing speed (tar, cpio, apio, rsync, etc.) by just opening a terminal window...”
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