Etymology

kanary tree

Today it means: The tropical tree Canarium indicum, found from the Malay Archipelago eastwards through New Guinea to the Pacific islands. Full definition →

Malay kaneri
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The story

  1. Malay · borrowed fromkaneri“tree of the genus Canarium”
  2. English todaykanary tree

From Malay kaneri (“tree of the genus Canarium”) + tree.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.