Am·a·da·vat n.  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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  Av·a·da·vat n. Same as Amadavat.
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  avadavat
       n : red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds [syn: amadavat]