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wheat-ear

wheat-ear is the alternative form of wheatear.

Meaning of wheatear

Noun (1)

wheatear (plural wheatears)

  1. Any of various passerine birds of the genus Oenanthe that feed on insects,
    • What abundance of Hens, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys, Pigeons, and Larks? [...] Maychit, Stint, Sea-Plover, Pewits, Redshanks, Rayles, and Wheat-ears, Herrons, Cranes, Bitterns, Bustards, Puffins, God-wits,1669, Edward Chamberlayne, Angliae Notitia; or, The Present State of England, London: T.N. for John Martyn, →OCLC, page 6
    1. especially, the northern wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe)

Noun (2)

wheatear (plural wheatears)

  1. An ear of wheat.
  2. A decorative pattern resembling an ear of wheat.
  3. An anomalous form of carnation, producing small green ears instead of flowers.

Forms of wheat-ear

pluralwheat-ears

Questions about wheat-ear

What is wheat-ear the alternative form of?
Wheat-ear is the alternative form of wheatear.

Words near wheat-ear in the dictionary

  1. wheat sawfly
  2. wheat starch
  3. wheat thief
  4. wheat weevil
  5. wheat weevils
  6. wheat-ear
  7. wheat-ears
  8. wheat-eddish
  9. wheat-eddishes
  10. wheat-eel
  11. wheat-eels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wheat-ear (page history and authors); wheatear (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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