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Dave
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Dave asked in Education & ReferenceTrivia · 2 decades ago

What sort of animal are the Canary Islands named for?

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  • 2 decades ago
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    From Wikipedia:

    "The Canary Islands are an archipelago of seven islands of volcanic origin in the Atlantic Ocean, off the northwestern coast of Africa (Morocco and the Western Sahara). They form an autonomous community of Spain. The name comes from the Latin Insularia Canaria meaning Island of the Dogs, a name applied originally only to the island of Gran Canaria

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    the canary islands are named after a little yellow bird called a canary

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    What sort of animal, a bird! The type of bird being a canary.

    the particular island canary's name being (Serinus canaria)

    Source(s): lol, this is mostly all bs, so I'm probably wrongs. (especially since it's from a dog or something) but that really is Latin for "Island Canary"
  • 2 decades ago

    Canaries !!!

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  • 2 decades ago

    Because of dogs, the latin word for dog is can i think.

    Source(s): A newspaper i read time ago hehe.
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