colza
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of colza
First recorded in 1705–15; from French, from Dutch koolzaad, equivalent to kool “cabbage” + zaad “seed”; see origin at cole, seed
Example Sentences
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A former schoolteacher, he began in 2009 raising wheat and colza, which yields a cooking oil.
From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2022
Mineral oil was not discovered until nearly 60 years later, at which time, in country districts where gas was not available, the lights were tallow candles and colza oil.
From Time Magazine Archive
Certainly kerosene supplanted whale oil and also colza, but it was not supplanted by gas.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then they came to an apartment in which a window of the Valois period, chased so as to resemble ivory, let in the sun, which heated the grains of colza that strewed the floor.
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Flaubert, Gustave
A certain freshman, stealing down his staircase with a can of colza oil to feed the flames, was confronted by our missing Senior Fellow.
From The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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