- canary⇄adj. light-yellow; canary-colored.
- canary⇄canary, noun, pl.-naries,adjective.
- canary⇄noun 1. Also, canary bird. a small songbird, originally from the Canary Islands. The canary belongs to the same family as the finch and is often kept as a pet. The wild bird is greenish, but the domestic bird is usually yellow.
2. a light yellow.