Am`a*da*vat" (#), 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 red waxbill.

[Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

 

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