Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Amadavat

Amadavat ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Indian name. From Ahmedabad, a city from which it was imported to Europe.]

(Zoology) 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.