avadavat
amadavat
\ˈamə-\Definition of avadavat
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: a very small weaverbird (Estrilda amandava) native to southeast Asia but often kept as a cage bird, having the breeding male scarlet, darker above, and with white dots on wings and sides and the female and eclipse male olive brown above and grayish buff below —called also strawberry finch
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Origin and Etymology of avadavat
irregular from Ahmadabad, city in India from which it was imported to Europe
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