whydah
Meanings
noun
- Any of various black and white African birds with distinctive drooping long tailfeathers on males in mating season, suitable as cage birds.
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Alteration of the first component of widow bird, after Whydah (now Ouidah) in Benin.
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