whydah

English

Alternative forms

• whidah, whyda, wydah

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)wɪdə/

Noun

whydah (plural whydahs)

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

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967