| avadavat | (n) red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds, Syn. amadavat |
| Amadavat | ‖n. [ 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 |