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wheatear


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wheatear  \Wheat"ear`\,  n.  (Zo["o]l.) 
  A  small  European  singing  bird  ({Saxicola  [oe]nanthe}).  The 
  male  is  white  beneath,  bluish  gray  above,  with  black  wings 
  and  a  black  stripe  through  each  eye.  The  tail  is  black  at  the 
  tip  and  in  the  middle,  but  white  at  the  base  and  on  each 
  side  Called  also  {checkbird},  {chickell},  {dykehopper}, 
  {fallow  chat},  {fallow  finch},  {stonechat},  and  {whitetail}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  wheatear 
  n  :  small  songbird  of  northern  America  and  Eurasia  having  a 
  distinctive  white  rump 




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