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Amadavat (gcide) | 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.]
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amadavat (wn) | amadavat
n 1: red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds [syn:
avadavat, amadavat] |
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Amadavat (gcide) | 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.]
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