widow bird

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   mostly black African weaverbird

   Synonymswhydahwhidah

   Broaderweaver

   Part ofVidua

Questions about widow bird

What does widow bird mean?

widow bird means "mostly black African weaverbird".

What is another word for widow bird?

Close synonyms include whydah, whidah. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is widow bird a common word?

widow bird is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.