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Amadavat
‖
Amˊa-da-vat′
,Noun.
[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
.]