Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Amadavat \Am`a*da*vat"\, n. [Indian name. From Ahmedabad, a city
   from which it was imported to Europe.] (Zo["o]l.)
   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}.]