canary yellow

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   a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge

   Synonymscanary

   Broaderyellow

Questions about canary yellow

What does canary yellow mean?

canary yellow means "a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge".

What is another word for canary yellow?

Close synonyms include canary. 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 yellow a common word?

canary yellow 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.