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gra⋅no⋅la

[gruh-noh-luh]
–noun
a breakfast food consisting of rolled oats, brown sugar, nuts, dried fruit, etc., usually served with milk.

Origin:
1870–75; orig. a trademark; cf. -ola
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gra·no·la   (grə-nō'lə)   
n.  Rolled oats mixed with various ingredients, such as dried fruit, brown sugar, and nuts, and used especially as a breakfast cereal.

[Originally a trademark.]
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granola 
1970, Amer.Eng., probably from It. grano "grain," or from granular. Earlier, with a capital G-, it was a proprietary name (reg. 1886 by W.K. Kellogg) for a kind of breakfast cereal.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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