whydah (bird)
Origin of widowbird
calque of Portuguese viuva, widowbird, literally , widow ( from Classical Latin vidua: see widow): from the resemblance of its dark plumage to a widow's mourning clotheswidowbird
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Noun
(plural widowbirds)
- Alternative spelling of widow bird.
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