Where does “canola” come from?
Canola is a 20th-century English coinage from Canadian oil, a blend created to market a new rapeseed variety developed in Canada.
canola (English): Any of a number of cultivars of rapeseed and...
Definitions
- Any of a number of cultivars of rapeseed and...
Ancestry of “canola”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Irish | cana | cub, whelp; bardic poet of the fourth order;... |
| 2 | Middle Irish | cana | cub; puppy |
| 3 | Proto-Celtic | kanawū | whelp, cub |