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• canelo
  canelo

  noun

  a less common variant of canella.
• Canelo
  Canelo

  noun

  a member of an Indigenous people originally living in central Ecuador.

canelo

¹ American  

[kuh-nel-oh, kuh-nay-loh] / kəˈnɛl oʊ, kəˈneɪ loʊ /

noun

• canelos
  plural

1. a less common variant of canella.

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Canelo ² American  

[kuh-nel-oh, kuh-nay-loh] / kəˈnɛl oʊ, kəˈneɪ loʊ /

noun

• Canelo,
  plural
• Canelos
  plural

1. a member of an Indigenous people originally living in central Ecuador.

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adjective

1. relating or belonging to an Indigenous people originally living in central Ecuador.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Canelo
  plural
• Canelos
  plural
• canelos
  plural

Example Sentences

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Canelo Canelos

As the Eaton fire consumed an Altadena street, one family loaded their furry loved ones into a truck to evacuate — including Canelo, a dog with white-and-caramel fur.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

The streamer has recently increased its sports offerings, with a super middleweight clash between Terence Crawford and Saul "Canelo" Alvarez in Las Vegas last September viewed by 41 million people.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

His future had been debated since he beat Canelo to become the undisputed super-middleweight champion, adding to titles at lightweight, light-welterweight, welterweight and light-middleweight.

From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2025

Terence Crawford controlled his fight against Canelo Álvarez from start to finish, winning in front of hostile crowd Saturday at Allegiant Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025

Make out a procès verbal—that the Señor Don Juan Dios Canelo, here present, will become prosecutor in this case.

From Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora by Mayne Reid

The party went first across the mountains to Canelos, an Indian village, where they thought to embark on a little stream which discharges itself into the Amazon.

From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch

About this time a message was received by Vaca de Castro from Gonzalo Pizarro, who had just returned to Quito from his disastrous expedition to Los Canelos, formerly related.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 04 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

The canoe being finished, they all departed from Canelos.

From Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770. by Patrick Maxwell

They had reacted a district which lies between two great branches of the Napo river, and which bears the name of Canelos, or the “cinnamon country.”

From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Johann Baptist Zwecker

They had been driven by the contagion prevalent at Canelos, to withdraw with their wives to a hut they had at a distance, and were then going to Andoas.

From Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770. by Patrick Maxwell