different between wheatear vs wheat

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?t???/, /?wi?t???/

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Probably a back-formation from Middle English whit ers (“white arse”), after the prominent white rump of many species. Compare dialect forms white rump, white-tail. Possibly a compound of wheat +? ear or white +? ear. Attested since the seventeenth century as wheat-ears or wheatgear.

Noun

wheatear (plural wheatears)

1. Any of various passerine birds of the genus Oenanthe that feed on insects,
   1. especially, the northern wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe)

Synonyms

• clodhopper, fallow-chat, fallow-smiter

Derived terms

• northern wheatear

Translations

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
• “wheatear”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Etymology 2

From Middle English whete-ere, equivalent to wheat +? ear.

Noun

wheatear (plural wheatears)

1. An ear of wheat.
2. A decorative pattern resembling an ear of wheat.

Anagrams

• Haweater, aweather, taraweeh

English

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• wheate (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English whete, from Old English hw?te, from Proto-West Germanic *hwait?, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz (compare West Frisian weet, Dutch weit, Low German Weten, German Weizen, Danish hvede, Swedish vete, Norwegian Nynorsk kveite, Icelandic hveiti), from *hw?taz (“white”). More at white.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi?t/
• (without the wine–whine merger) IPA^(key): /?i?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Noun

wheat (countable and uncountable, plural wheats)

1. (countable) Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
2. (uncountable) A light brown colour, like that of wheat.

Synonyms

• (a plant of the genus Triticum): triticum

Coordinate terms

• (grains in Triticum): barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, triticale

Translations

Adjective

wheat (not comparable)

1. Wheaten, of a light brown colour, like that of wheat.

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• white

See also

Anagrams

• Hewat, wathe