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canaries   (TTS Sound)

The noun canaries has 1 sense

• Canary Islands, Canaries -- (a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish provinces)

The noun canary has 4 senses

• fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool pigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary -- (someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police)


• canary -- (a female singer)


• canary yellow, canary -- (a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge)


• canary, canary bird -- (any of several small Old World finches)