Also -rie, -ry. [Malay kanārī.] An East Indian tree of the genus Canarium (N. O. Burseraceæ), producing edible nuts, from which oil is extracted. Also attrib.
1779. Forrest, Voy. N. Guinea, 152. Got a great many Kanary nuts, the kernels of which … are full of oil.
1800. Asiat. Ann. Reg., Misc. Tr., 208/1. The kanary is a remarkably fine kind of almond.
1887. Anna Forbes, Insulinde, ii. 21. A long wide avenue of kanarie-trees, which interlace high overhead in a superb leafy canopy, traverses the garden.
