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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small gray bird (Padda oryzivora) that has a black-and-white head, is native to tropical Asia, and is popular as a cage bird.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
sparrow .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun ornithology A species of finch Padda oryzivora, native of Java, but very commonly kept as a cage bird.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small finch-like Indonesian weaverbird that frequents rice fields
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