canary islands

1. 1.

   a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish provinces

   SynonymsCanaries

   Broaderisland

   Part ofSpain

   PartsTenerife

Questions about canary islands

What does canary islands mean?

canary islands means "a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish provinces".

What is another word for canary islands?

Close synonyms include Canaries. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is canary islands a common word?

canary islands is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.