Found 2 items, similar to amadavat.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: amadavat amadavat n : red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds [syn: avadavat]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Amadavat Amadavat \Am`a*da*vat"\, n. [Indian name. From Ahmedabad, a city from which it was imported to Europe.] (Zo["o]l.) 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.] [1913 Webster]