noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any of various black and white African birds with distinctive drooping long tailfeathers on males in mating season, suitable as cage birds.
2. 2
   mostly black African weaverbird wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

whidahwidow bird

Etymology

Alteration of the first component of widow bird, after Whydah (now Ouidah) in Benin.

Related phrases

eastern paradise whydahlong-tailed paradise whydahcage birdmating season

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