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: a rape plant of an improved variety having seeds that are low in erucic acid and are the source of canola oil
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These fuels, largely made from food crops like soy and canola or from manure at factory farms, pump out pollution in overburdened communities and have dubious climate benefits.
—Amelia Keyes, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
Southern cooks prefer peanut oil, but canola or vegetable oil will do.
—Judy Bart Kancigor, Orange County Register, 9 May 2024
Cold Pressing produces high energy canola meal used in stock feed for most species of animals.
—Earl Carr, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
Vegetable, canola, and corn oil are good bets for baking and have a high smoke point and neutral flavor.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 21 Mar. 2024
For 40 years Olson trucked his 18,000 honeybee colonies between California and Washington, moving among farms and orchards where their job was to pollinate everything from almonds to tree fruits, blueberries, blackberries, cranberries, carrots, radishes, onions, canola and alfalfa.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
Tosh Pork, which owns 11,000 acres of land and produces swine and grows corn, soybeans, wheat, canola and barley, employs people from foreign countries to work on its farm, DOL said.
—Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2024
Olive oil and pork fat should be your only cooking fats, so lose the canola and other seed oils.
—Christian Mysliwiec, Fox News, 5 Mar. 2024
Then to the canola fields of central Idaho, the winding South Fork of east Idaho, a granite spire in north Idaho.
—Lauren Melink, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
from Canola, former certification mark
First Known Use
1979, in the meaning defined at sense 2
Phrases Containing canola
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“Canola.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/canola. Accessed 12 Jun. 2024.
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canola
noun
ca·no·la
kə-ˈnō-lə
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: a rape plant of an improved variety having seeds that are the source of canola oil
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Medical Definition
canola
noun
ca·no·la
kə-ˈnō-lə
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: a rape plant (Brassica napus of the mustard family) of an improved variety with seeds that are low in erucic acid and are the source of canola oil
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