Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of whydah.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as whidah-bird.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of whydah.
WordNet 3.0
- n. mostly black African weaverbird
Etymologies
- alteration of the first component of widow bird (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As they went on, the boys noticed the abundance of the pretty little whidah bird, a lovely little creature, about the size of a lark, but with a tail of such enormous length that in a breeze the power of the wind upon the tail drives the bird to take flight into shelter, so that it shall not be blown away.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘whidah’.
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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Flightful Forays
trips from El Nido
vireo, tanager, scaup, lark, killdear, falcon, cormorant, becard, avocet, accipiter, peregrine, remex and 135 more...
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