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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of several African weaverbirds of the genus Vidua, the male of which grows long, drooping, predominantly black tail feathers during the breeding season. Also called widow bird.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See whidah, whidahbird.

Wiktionary

  1. n. name for various African, black-and-white weaverbirds with distinctive drooping long tail-feathers on males in mating season, suitable as cage birds

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. mostly black African weaverbird

Etymologies

  1. alteration of the first component of widow bird (Wiktionary)
  2. Probably alteration of widow (bird). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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‘whydah’ has been looked up 1251 times, added to 3 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 19.