canola oil

1. 1.

   vegetable oil made from rapeseed; it is high in monounsaturated fatty acids

   Synonymscanola

   Broadervegetable oil

Questions about canola oil

What does canola oil mean?

canola oil means "vegetable oil made from rapeseed; it is high in monounsaturated fatty acids".

What is another word for canola oil?

Close synonyms include canola. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is canola oil a common word?

canola oil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.