WIDOW BIRD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does widow bird mean? 

• WIDOW BIRD (noun)
  The noun WIDOW BIRD has 1 sense:

1. mostly black African weaverbird

  Familiarity information: WIDOW BIRD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WIDOW BIRD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mostly black African weaverbird

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

whidah; whydah; widow bird

Hypernyms ("widow bird" is a kind of...):

weaver; weaver finch; weaverbird (finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests)

Holonyms ("widow bird" is a member of...):

genus Vidua; Vidua (whydahs)