canary seed

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   a mixture of seeds used to feed caged birds

   Broaderbird feed

Questions about canary seed

What does canary seed mean?

canary seed means "a mixture of seeds used to feed caged birds".

Is canary seed a common word?

canary seed 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.