Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

climate canary

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English

Syllables: cli-mate -ca-nary
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A species that is affected by an environmental danger prior to other species, thus serving as an early warning system for the other species with regard to a danger.

Etymology

Derived from miner's canary.

Inflected Forms

climate canaries (plural)

Questions

What does climate canary mean?: A species that is affected by an environmental danger prior to other species, thus serving as an early warning system for the other species with regard to a danger.
Where does climate canary come from?: Derived from miner's canary.

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