widowbird

widowbird
widowbird [wid′ō bʉrd΄]
n.
calque of Port viuva, widowbird, lit., widow (< L vidua: see WIDOW): from the resemblance of its dark plumage to a widow's mourning clothes

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widow bird n.
See whydah.
  [From its black plumage.]

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