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The most common food for these divers is fingernail clams, aquatic insects, crustaceans, and a variety of vegetation like wild celery, eelgrass, and salicornia.
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M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 8 Feb. 2024
Canvasback Duck Habitat While canvasbacks are omnivorous, their diet primarily consists of vegetative material, namely wild celery.
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M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 8 Nov. 2023
In fact, their love of wild celery, or eelgrass, lends itself to the bird’s scientific name of Aythya valisineria, as the Latin word for wild celery is Vallisneria Americana.
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M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 8 Nov. 2023
Another popular plant was wild celery; gorillas use their teeth to scrape out the tasty inner part of a stalk, then discard the rest.
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Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2016
Until five years ago, the extent of wild celery grass beds in the Delaware estuary was a bit of a mystery.
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Katherine Rapin, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2022
The restoration of wild celery and other aquatic plant species has been underway there for more than 30 years.
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Katherine Rapin, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2022
At this offal restaurant, run by chef Sarah Cicolini, Tucci and Parla enjoyed a frittata with mashed chicken offal; Roman tripe cooked in tomatoes; wagyu heart tartare; and oxtail meatball with peanut, wild celery and cocoa powder sauce.
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CNN, 21 Mar. 2021
The explorers paddled down the western side of the Door Peninsula into an embayment and river system teeming with wild rice, wild celery, waterfowl, beavers and fish — lots and lots of fish.
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jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
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First Known Use
1791, in the meaning defined above
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“Wild celery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wild%20celery. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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