Hypertext Webster Gateway: "amadavat"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Amadavat \Am`a*da*vat"\, n. [Indian name. From Ahmedabad, a city
from which it was imported to Europe.] (Zo["o]l.)
The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird ({Estrelda
amandava}), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female
is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; --
called also {red waxbill}. [Written also {amaduvad} and
{avadavat}.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
amadavat
n : red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds [syn: {avadavat}]
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