canal

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A long, narrow channel of water made by people for boats or for carrying water to fields.

   We took a slow boat ride along the old canal through the city.

2. 2
   noun

   A tube or passage inside the body or a plant.

   The dentist said the infection had reached the root canal of my tooth.

Borrowed from Middle French canal, from Old French canal, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”), from canālis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of channel.

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