||Am`a*da*vat" (?), n. [Indian name. From
Ahmedabad, a city from which it was imported to Europe.]
(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 also
red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and
avadavat.]