whydahとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• whidah, whyda, wydah

語源

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

発音

• IPA: /ˈ(h)wɪdə/

名詞

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.

派生語

参照

• “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.