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canola en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /kəˈnoʊlə/

Etymology

From Canola.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) Any of a number of cultivars of rapeseed (Brassica napus) and closely related field mustard (Brassica rapa), which have a lower erucic acid and glucosinolate content than traditional rapeseed.
    • The approach taken in this study was to compare the risk management costs of wheat to that of two non-cwb-marketed Canadian grains: flax and canola. 1998, Phillip Thomas, U.S. Agricultural Trade: Canadian Wheat Issues:
    • For a salad dressing use olive or canola oil with lemon or vinegar and herb seasonings 2003, Jack LaLanne, Revitalize Your Life: Improve Your Looks, Your Health & Your Sex Life:
    • The carbohydrate component of canola meal accounts for about one third of the meal . . . 1997, Ronald R. Marquardt, Zhengkang Han, Enzymes in Poultry and Swine Nutrition: proceedings of the first Chinese Symposium on Feed:

Forms

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canolas Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

canola oil

Hypernyms

rapeseed · rape

Relateds

Canada · oil · Canadian · Canola · low · acid

Translations (6)

mi kanōra (cultivar of field mustard Brassica rapa) · fi rypsi (cultivar of field mustard Brassica rapa) · de Rübsen (cultivar of field mustard Brassica rapa) · es canola (cultivar of field mustard Brassica rapa) · pl rzepak (cultivar of field mustard Brassica rapa) · pt canola (cultivar of field mustard Brassica rapa)