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"etymology_text": "Alteration of the first component of widow bird, after Whydah (now Ouidah) in Benin.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "whydahs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "whidah",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "whyda",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "wydah",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
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"pos": "noun",
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},
{
"kind": "lifeform",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Perching birds",
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"Vertebrates",
"Chordates",
"Animals",
"Lifeforms",
"All topics",
"Life",
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],
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}
],
"glosses": [
"Any of various black and white African birds with distinctive drooping long tailfeathers on males in mating season, suitable as cage birds."
],
"id": "en-whydah-en-noun-nc6K8pmB",
"links": [
[
"bird",
"bird"
],
[
"tailfeather",
"tailfeather"
],
[
"mating season",
"mating season"
],
[
"cage bird",
"cage bird"
]
],
"wikipedia": [
"Ouidah",
"Viduidae"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈ(h)wɪdə/"
}
],
"word": "whydah"
}
{
"etymology_text": "Alteration of the first component of widow bird, after Whydah (now Ouidah) in Benin.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "whydahs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "whidah",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "whyda",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "wydah",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
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"Any of various black and white African birds with distinctive drooping long tailfeathers on males in mating season, suitable as cage birds."
],
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[
"bird",
"bird"
],
[
"tailfeather",
"tailfeather"
],
[
"mating season",
"mating season"
],
[
"cage bird",
"cage bird"
]
],
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"Ouidah",
"Viduidae"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈ(h)wɪdə/"
}
],
"word": "whydah"
}
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