CANARY ISLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Canary Islands mean? 

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

1. a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish provinces

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANARY ISLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish provinces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Canaries; Canary Islands

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Meronyms (parts of "Canary Islands"):

Tenerife (a Spanish island in the Atlantic off the northwestern coast of Africa; the largest of the Canary Islands)

Holonyms ("Canary Islands" is a part of...):

Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)

 Context examples 

The team used the HARPS-North instrument on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo in the Canary Islands to conduct follow-up observations to obtain a mass measurement of the rocky behemoth.

(Astronomers confounded by massive rocky world, NASA)

This work relied upon high-cadence observations from NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, and the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope in La Palma, in the Canary Islands.

(Scientists Uncover Origins of the Sun’s Swirling Spicules, NASA)