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
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
In captivity they take well to canary seed, and what is remarkable, never pick food with their feet, as do other species of parrots, but always use their beaks.
From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 1 January, 1897 by Various
Give nothing to healthy birds but rape, hemp, canary seed, water, cuttle-fish bone, and gravel, paper or sand on floor of cage.
From The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference by Joseph Triemens
The love-birds feed almost entirely on millet or canary seed, and they like a sod of grass in their cage.
From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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