avadavat

noun

av·​a·​da·​vat

ˈavədəˌvat

variants or less commonly amadavat

ˈamə-

plural -s

: 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

Word History

Etymology

irregular from Ahmadabad, city in India from which it was imported to Europe

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