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wheatear
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. small songbird of northern America and Eurasia having a distinctive white rump
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of bird, 1590s, back-formation from white-ears , literally "white-arse" (see white + arse ). So called for its color markings; compare French name for the bird, cul-blanc , literally "white rump."
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The wheatears are passerine birds of the genus Oenanthe . They were formerly considered to be members of the thrush family, Turdidae, but are now more commonly placed in the flycatcher family, Muscicapidae . This is an Old World group, but the northern ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of various passerine birds of the genus ''Oenanthe'' that feed on insects.
Usage examples of wheatear.
Any more stunts like that, thought Faraday, and the wheatear would be back in North Africa.
Faraday slipped the mobile back in the pocket of his anorak, then began to search half-heartedly for the wheatear again.
From unseen places birds began to sing--the wheatear in the crevices of the rocks, the sedge-warbler among the rushes of the rivers.
He had begun with simple tallies, marked with wheatear, sickle, and flower, but he needed lists of all his people, and their villages, and the bartons and their yeoman marshals.
Now there were more unfamiliar plants, a wheatear that Stephen could not certainly identify, some tortoises, and a surprising number of birds of prey, shrikes and the smaller falcons, almost one to every moderate bush or tree in an exceptionally desolate region.
May, the roses we gathered in June, the first wheatear we plucked as the green corn filled.
They lie crushed together at the base, and on the point of this jagged ridge a wheatear perches.
Each picture block was surrounded by a different stitch: blanket, herringbone, Pekinese, fern, feather, open cretan, fly, zigzag chain, wheatear and sheaf-filling stitches, Portuguese border, and star eyelets.
A little breeze ruffled the wheatears and brought up the green smell of the haymeadows nearer the river.
The sunbeams sank deeper and deeper into the wheatears, layer upon layer of light, and the colour deepened by these daily strokes.
Black wheatears that must have a brood not far: one of the smaller eagles in the sky.
Earlier than that in the summer there was not a wheatfield where you could not find numerous wheatears picked as clean as if threshed where they stood.
But at midsummer, above the opening wheatears, the heaven from the east to the zenith is flushed with it.
The opinion seems general that wheatears are not so numerous as they used to be.
The little park had a grove of yellowed birches, and a flock of wheatears foraged by the path.