amadavat

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Indian name. From Ahmedabad, a city from which the bird was imported to Europe.

Noun

amadavat (plural amadavats)

  1. The strawberry finch, a small Indian songbird (Estrilda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for amadavat in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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