canary seed
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of canary seed
First recorded in 1590–1600
Example Sentences
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He went shopping for canary seed and Polly, loose in the pet shop, settled on his shoulder and said, 'Pretty boy, I love you so.'
From Time Magazine Archive
Wax-bills eat millet-seed, canary seed, and a little soaked bread and sponge-cake.
From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The staple food should be canary seed mixed with rape, and there must always be a piece of cuttle-fish fastened in the cage.
From Harper's Young People, September 21, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
Wheat or Canary Seed.—Wheat or canary seed can be sown in any kind of dish, the bottom of which is covered with wet moss.
From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Leo swept out the canary seed from the grand parade, so that the little actors should have nothing to distract their attention.
From Make or Break or, The Rich Man's Daughter by Oliver Optic
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