amadavat

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A small conirostral granivorous finch-like bird, of the order Passeres, suborder Oscines, family Ploceidœ, subfamily Spermestinœ; the Estrilda amandava, a native of India, and one of the commonest exotic cage-birds. It is imported into Europe and the United States in large numbers, and is sometimes called strawberry-finch by the dealers. It forms the type of one of the numerous subgenera or sections of the large genus Estrilda, which contains species of small size and generally brilliant or varied colors, belonging to the same family as the weavers and whidah-birds. It is about 5 inches long, with a coral-red beak, and red-and-black plumage spotted with pearly white. Other forms are avadavat and amaduvade.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) 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.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds