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Meaning of SMALLAGE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Small"age\, n. [Small + F. ache smallage. See {Ach}
parsley.] (Bot.)
A biennial umbelliferous plant ({Apium graveolens}) native of
the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid
and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes
{celery}.
 
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