granola

By 1967, American English, probably from Italian grano (“grain”) or granular, with commercial suffix -ola.[1]

Earlier, with a capital G-, it was a proprietary name for a kind of breakfast cereal, registered in 1886 by Will Keith Kellogg and in use into the early 20th century.[1] It was initially known as Granula and renamed Granola to avoid legal problems with James Caleb Jackson, who invented a similar cereal in 1863,[2] named Granula after the granules of Graham flour, the main ingredient.[3] The food and name were revived in the 1960s.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɹəˈnoʊlə/

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• Rhymes: -əʊlə

granola (countable and uncountable, plural granolas)

1. A breakfast and snack food consisting of loose, crispy pellets made of nuts, rolled oats, honey and other natural ingredients.
2. (slang, countable) Short for crunchy granola.

• crunchy granola
• granola bar
• granola-head
• granola mom

granola (comparative more granola, superlative most granola)

1. (chiefly Canada, US, of a person) Eating healthy food, supporting the protection of the environment, and having liberal views.

   You see more and more of the granola hippie activist types these days.

   • 2013 November 21, Jame Schaefer, Tobias Winright, Environmental Justice and Climate Change‎, page 228:

     […] behind them a granola-looking mom in denim overalls and a t-shirt was pulling in to do her drop-off . . . from a Prius.

   • 2015 February 13, Dennis Saffran, “The Orwellian Campaign To Project Anti-Vaccination Onto Republicans”, in The Federalist:

     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.

   • 2020 June 18, Kiera Butler, “The Anti-Vax Movement’s Radical Shift From Crunchy Granola Purists to Far-Right Crusaders”, in Mother Jones:

     Yet some experts believe that voices from the far right are beginning to drown out those of the crunchy granola crowd.

• Angolar, angolar, organal

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁa.no.la/

granola m (plural granolas)

1. granola

• grano

granola f (plural granolas)

1. granola

• “granola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014