CANARY YELLOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does canary yellow mean? 

• CANARY YELLOW (noun)
  The noun CANARY YELLOW has 1 sense:

1. a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge

  Familiarity information: CANARY YELLOW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANARY YELLOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A moderate yellow with a greenish tinge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

canary; canary yellow

Hypernyms ("canary yellow" is a kind of...):

yellow; yellowness (yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons)

 Context examples 

Further out still lay a great merchant-ship, high ended, deep waisted, painted of a canary yellow, and towering above the fishing-boats like a swan among ducklings.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)