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[syn: avadavat, amadavat]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Amadavat \Am`a*da*vat"\, n. [Indian name. From Ahmedabad, a city
from which it was imported to Europe.] (Zool.)
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.]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Avadavat \Av`a*da*vat"\, n.
Same as Amadavat.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
avadavat
n 1: red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds [syn:
avadavat, amadavat]