canary seed

American  

noun

1. birdseed.

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canary seed British  

noun

1. another name for birdseed

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Etymology

Origin of canary seed

First recorded in 1590–1600

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Example Sentences

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canary seed

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 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

Besides this, give them a little scalded rapeseed, and a little rape and canary seed by itself.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton

In some parts of Sicily the gossips of St. John present each other with plates of sprouting corn, lentils, and canary seed, which have been planted forty days before the festival.

From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer

People with kind hearts, scatter canary seed over their lawns to the merry birds for their summer songs, and for keeping down the weeds.”

From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 4 October, 1897 by Various

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