canary seed
|
noun
Origin of canary seed
First recorded in 1590–1600
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019
Examples from the Web for canary seed
Historical Examples of canary seed
"I will take him a large bag of canary-seed," replied this good man.
The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; The Boy and the Book; and Crystal PalaceSusan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick
The weaver-birds of Africa are mostly quite hardy and very easily kept, their food consisting, for the most part, of canary-seed.
White mice will eat nuts of all kinds, canary-seed, and various other grains.
As a treat, a little crushed hempseed or summer cabbage-seed may be mixed with the canary-seed.
Indeed a mixture of summer rape-seed, oatmeal and millet, or canary-seed, may be given them as a great treat.
The Natural History of Cage BirdsJ. M. Bechstein
canary seed
noun
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012