wheatear

2 definitions found

wheatear - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Wheatear \Wheat"ear`\, n. (Zool.)
     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.
     [1913 Webster]

wheatear - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  wheatear
      n 1: small songbird of northern America and Eurasia having a
           distinctive white rump