2 definitions found From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: wheatear noun: small songbird of northern America and Eurasia having a distinctive white rump From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Wheatear \Wheat"ear'\, noun (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}.

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