Ca·na·ry bird Zool. A small singing bird of the Finch family (Serinus Canarius), a native of the Canary Islands. It was brought to Europe in the 16th century, and made a household pet. It generally has a yellowish body with the wings and tail greenish, but in its wild state it is more frequently of gray or brown color. It is sometimes called canary finch.
 Canary bird flower Bot., a climbing plant (Tropæolum peregrinum) with canary-colored flowers of peculiar form; -- called also canary vine.

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 Finch n.; pl. Finches   Zool. A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidæ.
 Note: ☞ The word is often used in composition, as in chaffinch, goldfinch, grassfinch, pinefinch, etc.
 Bramble finch. See Brambling.
 Canary finch, the canary bird.
 Copper finch. See Chaffinch.
 Diamond finch. See under Diamond.
 Finch falcon Zool., one of several very small East Indian falcons of the genus Hierax.
 To pull a finch, to swindle an ignorant or unsuspecting person. [Obs.] “Privily a finch eke could he pull.”

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