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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Oxford Reference Dictionary

var. of AMADAVAT.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Avadavat Av`a*da*vat", n. Same as Amadavat.