canadian : Idioms & Phrases
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- canadian aspen
- canadian bacon
- canadian capital
- canadian dollar
- canadian falls
- canadian fleabane
- canadian french
- canadian goldenrod
- canadian goose
- canadian hemlock
- canadian maritime provinces
- Canadian period
- canadian pondweed
- canadian province
- canadian red pine
- canadian river
- canadian security intelligence service
- canadian shield
- french canadian
- royal canadian mounted police
canadian aspen
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noun aspen with a narrow crown; eastern North America
large tooth aspen; bigtoothed aspen; bigtooth aspen; big-toothed aspen; large-toothed aspen; Populus grandidentata.
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canadian bacon
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noun from a boned strip of cured loin
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canadian capital
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noun the capital of Canada (located in southeastern Ontario across the Ottawa river from Quebec)
capital of Canada; Ottawa.
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canadian dollar
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noun the basic unit of money in Canada
loonie.
- the Canadian dollar has the image of loon on one side of the coin
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canadian falls
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noun a part of Niagara Falls in Ontario
Horseshoe Falls.
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canadian fleabane
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noun common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron
fleabane; horseweed; Erigeron canadensis; Conyza canadensis.
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canadian french
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noun the French language as spoken in Quebec, Canada
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canadian goldenrod
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noun large North American goldenrod having showy clusters of yellow flowers on arching branches; often a weed
meadow goldenrod; Solidago canadensis.
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canadian goose
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noun common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call
Branta canadensis; honker; Canada goose.
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canadian hemlock
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noun common forest tree of the eastern United States and Canada; used especially for pulpwood
spruce pine; Tsuga canadensis; eastern hemlock.
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canadian maritime provinces
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noun the collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
Maritimes; Maritime Provinces.
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Canadian period
(Geol.) , A subdivision of the American Lower Silurian system embracing the calciferous, Quebec, and Chazy epochs. This period immediately follows the primordial or Cambrian period, and is by many geologists regarded as the beginning of the Silurian age, See the Diagram, underGeology .
Webster 1913
canadian pondweed
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noun North American waterweed; widely naturalized in Europe
Elodea canadensis.
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canadian province
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noun Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes
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canadian red pine
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noun pine of eastern North America having long needles in bunches of two and reddish bark
red pine; Pinus resinosa.
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canadian river
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noun a river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma
Canadian.
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canadian security intelligence service
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noun Canada's main foreign intelligence agency that gathers and analyzes information to provide security intelligence for the Canadian government
CSIS.
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canadian shield
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noun a large plateau that occupies more than 40% of the land area of Canada; it extends from the Great Lakes northward to the Arctic Ocean
Laurentian Plateau; Laurentian Highlands.
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french canadian
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noun a Canadian descended from early French settlers and whose native language is French
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royal canadian mounted police
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noun the federal police force of Canada
Mounties; RCMP.