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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



... cried the widow, with vivacious affection, shaking her gay plumage like a canary bird ...
— A Noble Woman • Ann S. Stephens

... "One of the canary bird crowd got a broken arm. The others were pretty well bruised up, but they are still in ...
— The Circus Boys on the Plains • Edgar B. P. Darlington

... the cavalcade, which I may as well describe since I'm on the subject, Peter Storm is driving Pat's Grayles-Grice, as Papa Goodrich says he would "as soon hire a canary bird to tame a mad bull as let that little slim Miss Moore pilot his family in a man-sized motor car." It seems that our soldier of fortune, P. S., was a chauffeur once for a year. He seems to have been most things, ...
— The Lightning Conductor Discovers America • C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson and A. M. (Alice Muriel)

... marriage the dentist is disbarred from practice. They move into a garret where she starves her husband and herself to save that precious hoard. She sells even his office furniture, everything but his concertina and his canary bird, with which he stubbornly refuses to part and which are destined to become very important accessories in the property room of the theatre where this drama is played. This removal from their first home is to this story what Gervaise's removal from her shop is to L'Assommoir; it ...
— A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather



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



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