whydah

• whidah, whyda, wydah

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)wɪdə/

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whydah (plural whydahs)

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

• “whydah” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.