amadavat

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amadavat - 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]

amadavat - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  amadavat
      n 1: red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds [syn:
           avadavat, amadavat]