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(kə·nal) noun
1. An artificial inland waterway connecting two navigable bodies of water.
2. An artificial channel for irrigating tracts of land.
3. Any channel, groove, passage, or duct: the auditory canal.
4. Zool. A groove, as for the siphon in the shells of gastropods, or a pore, as in sponges, etc.
5. Astron. One of the peculiar markings visible on the face of the planet Mars.
central canal
The ventricle of the spinal cord.
v.t. ca·nalled or ca·naled, ca·nal·ling or ca·nal·ing
To build a canal or canals across or through; canalize.
[<MF <L canalis groove. Doublet of CHANNEL.]

Most often used phrases:

suez canal
canal system
canal company
union canal
canal de
canal street
rideau canal
avon canal
ear canal
liverpool canal
birmingham canal
welland canal
bridgewater canal
ohio canal
british canal

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"canal" has the frequency of use of 0.0015% on city-data.com forum

"canal" has the frequency of use of 0.0037% on en.wikipedia.org.

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