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Word entry · 7 letters

granola

Best crossword clue

"Crunchy oat cereal"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ɡɹəˈnoʊlə/Part of speech nounSorted aaglnorStarts with GEnds with A2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. cereal made of especially rolled oats with dried fruits and nuts and honey or brown sugar

Word origin

Genericized trademark from Granola, a brand of breakfast cereal registered in 1886 by Will Keith Kellogg and in use into the early 20th century. It was initially known as Granula and renamed Granola to avoid legal problems with James Caleb Jackson, who invented a similar cereal in 1863, named Granula after the granules of Graham flour, the main ingredient.

Used in a sentence

  • You see more and more of the granola hippie activist types these days.
  • […]behind them a granola-looking mom in denim overalls and a t-shirt was pulling in to do her drop-off . . . from a Prius.
  • Rather, the anti-vax movement is almost entirely a phenomenon of the affluent crunchy granola Left—as everyone across the political spectrum acknowledged until the last week or so.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Crunchy oat cereal7 letters
02Crunchy breakfast mix7 letters

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