Canary Islands

American  

plural noun

1. a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic Ocean, near the NW coast of Africa, comprising two provinces of Spain. 2,894 sq. mi. (7,495 sq. km).

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Canary Islands British  

plural noun

1. a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the NW coast of Africa, forming an Autonomous Community of Spain. Pop: 1 944 700 (2003 est)

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Other Word Forms

• Canarian
  adjective

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Example Sentences

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Canary Islands

Thousands of would-be migrants have died recently trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands from west Africa.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

Baines also participated and led fieldwork in China, the Canary Islands and Vietnam, from where seven plant species new to science were catalogued.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

In Senegal, fishmeal has put local fishers out of work, so they increasingly are selling — or repurposing — their boats to ferry migrants to Spain’s Canary Islands, a stepping stone to Europe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Within a day, observations from the Liverpool Telescope in the Canary Islands and NASA's Swift satellite in space showed that the object displayed the expected characteristics of an LFBOT.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

She went to the Canary Islands to learn how they talk in whistles in the mountains.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

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