whidah
whidah, whydah name of a town (now Ouidah) in Dahomey, W. Africa, applied spec. to animals found in this locality; w. bird (XVIII), alt. of widow-bird, which is based on L. generic name Vidua ‘widow’ (so called from the mainly black plumage and long train of tail feathers of the male).
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