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Canary bird   /kənˈɛri bərd/   Listen
Canary bird

noun
1.
Any of several small Old World finches.  Synonym: canary.






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"Canary bird" Quotes from Famous Books



... most exceptionable cannot be new. The vulgarity of language which we have noticed, is not to be attributed to M. Berquin, but to his wretched translator. L'Ami des Enfans, is, in French, remarkably elegantly written. The Little Canary Bird, Little George, The Talkative Little Girl, The Four Seasons, and many others, are excellent both in point of style and dramatic effect; they are exactly suited to the understandings of children; and they interest without any improbable events, or ...
— Practical Education, Volume I • Maria Edgeworth



Words linked to "Canary bird" :   canary, finch, common canary, genus Serinus, Serinus, Serinus canaria



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