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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: amadavat n : red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds [syn: {avadavat}]
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