Granola

a proprietary breakfast cereal

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A breakfast bowl filled with golden baked oat clusters and visible nuts, beside a small dish of honey and a spoon holding a close, readable sample of the granola.

noun / adjective

granola

gruh-NOH-luh/ɡrəˈnəʊlə/

A cereal mixture of oats and other ingredients associated with natural-food eating.

Etymology

granolaEnglisha proprietary breakfast cereal

Granola was earlier a proprietary breakfast-cereal name, rather than simply a generic food term. Its formation probably involved Italian grano, “grain,” or English granular, with the commercial ending -ola.

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