avadavat

avadavat
/av"euh deuh vat'/, n.
a waxbill, Estrilda amandava, native to Asia, having in the male scarlet plumage with white dots on the sides and breast: raised as a cage bird.
Also, amadavat.
[1770-80; earlier amaduvad, after Amidavad, a 17th century name (perh. < Pg) for AHMEDABAD, in Gujarat, from where the birds were first exported]

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▪ bird
also called  Red Avadavat, Red Munia, or Lal 
 (species Amandava, or Estrilda, amandava), plump, 8-centimetre- (3-inch-) long bird of the waxbill (q.v.) group (order Passeriformes), a popular cage bird. The avadavat is abundant in marshes and meadows of southern Asia (introduced in Hawaii). The male, in breeding plumage, is bright red with brown mottling and white speckling, hence another name, strawberry finch.

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  • avadavat — [ avədəvat] (also amadavat) noun a red or green South Asian waxbill sometimes kept as a cage bird. [Genus Amandava: two species.] Origin C17: named after the city of Ahmadabad in India …   English new terms dictionary

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