Wheater
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Wheater is a noun meaning Misspelling of wheatear (“bird”).
Meaning
Misspelling of wheatear (“bird”).
Example Sentences
The people have plenty of patridges, woodcocks, snipes, thrushes, woodpigeons, turtle doves, wheaters, and poultry.
It is particularly famous for its wheaters, a small bird, of the size of a lark, not much inferior to an ortolane, which is taken on the SE.
As less and less of the Downs is used as traditional pasture and more grassland is turned over to arable agriculture, the once-common wildlife species – the Adonis Blue and Chalkhill Blue butterflies, grasshoppers and the wheater bird, for example – are fast disappearing.
Word Forms
- wheaters
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wheatear, white-ear, clodhopper, wheatbird, fallowfinch, weaver.
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