Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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 alsored waxbill .
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- noun The strawberry finch, a small
Indian songbird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds
Etymologies
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Examples
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The red munia, or amadavat, or _lal_ (_Estrelda amandava_) is, next to the paroquet, the bird most commonly caged in India.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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Bonelli's eagle, the tawny eagle, the brown fish-owl, the rock horned-owl, the raven, the amadavat and the white-throated munia.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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The nest of this little bird is more loosely put together and more globular than that of the amadavat.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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The nest of the amadavat is large for the size of the bird, being a loosely-woven cup, which is egg-shaped and has a hole at or near the narrow end.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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This family includes the weaver-birds, famous for their wonderful hanging retort-shaped nests, and the munias, of which the amadavat or _lal_ is familiar to every resident of India as a cage bird.
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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