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Definition of Amadavat

1. Noun. Red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds.

Definition of Amadavat

1. n. 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.

Definition of Amadavat

1. Noun. The strawberry finch, a small Indian songbird (''Estrelda amandava''), commonly caged and kept for fighting. ¹

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Definition of Amadavat

1. an Asian songbird [n -S]

Medical Definition of Amadavat

1. 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. Synonym: red waxbill. Alternative forms: amaduvad and avadavat. Origin: Indian name. From Ahmedabad, a city from which it was imported to Europe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Amadavat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society by Hakluyt Society (1889)
"... burthen of trash and hinder others, but of this and new changes at Court at the end of my letter." ******* (Sir TR to the Company) : Dated, " amadavat ..."

2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"... the amadavat, is chiefly crimson with white dots; Munia oryzivora, the " Java Sparrow," is blue-grey and black with white cheeks. ..."

3. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1894)
"The Red Waxbill, or amadavat, is a rather locally distributed species, remaining all the year round, but it is nowhere abundant. ..."

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