Word Meanings - WHEATBIRD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.

Related words: (words related to WHEATBIRD)

• CHAFFINCH
  A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
• WHEATSTONE'S BRIDGE
  See BRIDGE
• WHEATBIRD
  A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
• WHEATSEL BIRD
  The male of the chaffinch.
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• WHEATEN
  Made of wheat; as, wheaten bread. Cowper.
• WHEAT RUST
  A disease of wheat and other grasses caused by the rust fungus Puccinia graminis; also, the fungus itself.
• WHEATWORM
  A small nematode worm which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm.
• WHEATEAR
  A small European singing bird . 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,
• WHEATSTONE'S RODS
  Flexible rods the period of vibration of which in two planes at right angles are in some exact ratio to one another. When one end of such a rod is fixed, the free end describes in vibrating the corresponding Lissajous figure. So called
• WHEAT
  A cereal grass and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race. Note: Of this grain the varieties are numerous, as red wheat, white wheat, bald wheat, bearded
• WHEAT SAWFLY
  A small European sawfly whose larva does great injury to wheat by boring in the stalks. Any of several small American sawflies of the genus Dolerus, as D. sericeus and D. arvensis, whose larvæ injure the stems or heads of wheat. Pachynematus
• COWWHEAT
  A weed of the genus Melampyrum, with black seeds, found on European wheatfields.
• NOTWHEAT
  Wheat not bearded. Carew.
• BUCKWHEAT
  A plant of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food. 2. The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc.
• ENTIRE-WHEAT
  Designating, made of, or relating to, flour including a considerable part of the bran.