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Canary logo #10101) Bird in a cage 2) Bird named after an island 3) Bright yellow 4) Canary-yellow 5) Chromatic 6) Dreamcast game 7) Finch variety 8) Front Wing game 9) French word used in English 10) Harz mountain output 11) Having the color of a canary 12) In the coal mine bird 13) Informer 14) Island group in the Atlantic
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Canary logo #10101) Dickeybird 2) Finch 3) Fink 4) Snitch 5) Stoolie 6) Stool pigeon
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canary logo #22641lively Renaissance courtly dance
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Canary logo #21002• (v. i.) To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper. • (n.) Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack. • (n.) A quick and lively dance. • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds. • (a.) Of a pale yellowish color; as, Canary stone. • (n.) A pale yellow color, like that of a can...
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canary logo #21003(species Serinus canaria), popular cage bird of the family Carduelidae (order Passeriformes). It owes its coloration and sustained vocal powers to ... [4 related articles]
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Canary logo #20972Ca·na'ry adjective [ French Canarie , Latin Canaria insula one of the Canary islands, said to be so called from its large dogs, from canis dog.] 1. Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds. 2. Of a pale yellowish color;...
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Canary logo #20972Ca·na'ry intransitive verb To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper. [ Obsolete] « But to jig of a tune at the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet. Shak. »
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Canary logo #20972Ca·na'ry noun ; plural Canaries . 1. Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack. 'A cup of canary .' Shak. 2. A canary bird. 3. A pale yellow color, like that of a canary bird. 4. A quick and lively dance. [ Obsolete] « Make you dance...
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Canary logo #21217The canary or canary-bird (Serinus canarius) is an insessorial singing bird of the finch family and native of the Canary islands. They were introduced to Europe in the latter part of the fifteenth century. Many of the caged canaries kept are actually mules produced from cross breeding a canary with an allied species such as the goldfinch, siskin or...
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Canary logo #21217Canary is slang for an informer.
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canary logo #22109A common descriptive term for deep yellow coloured diamonds
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canary logo #21009canary 1. A small finch (Serinus canaria) native to the Canary Islands that is greenish to yellow and has long been bred as a cage bird. 2. Slang: a woman singer; an informer; a stool pigeon. 3. A sweet white wine from the Canary Islands, similar to Madeira. 4. A light to moderate or vivid yellow. 5. Etymology: from about 1584, of the wine; and...
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canary logo #20974canary-yellow adjective having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow
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canary logo #21221Bird (Serinus canaria) of the finch family Fringillidae, found wild in the Canary Islands and Madeira. In its wild state the plumage is green, sometimes streaked with brown. The wild canary builds its nest of moss, feathers, and hair in thick high shrubs or trees, and produces two to four broods in a season. Canaries have been br...
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canary logo #23907any of several small Old World finches
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