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wheater

wheater is the misspelling 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 wheater

pluralwheaters

Questions about wheater

What is wheater the misspelling of?
Wheater is the misspelling of wheatear.

Words near wheater in the dictionary

  1. wheated
  2. wheaten
  3. wheaten terrier
  4. wheaten terriers
  5. wheatens
  6. wheater
  7. wheaters
  8. wheatfield
  9. wheatfields
  10. wheatflake
  11. wheatflakes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wheater (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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