Wheat·ear n. Zool. A small European singing bird (Saxicola œnanthe). 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, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail.

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 Fal·low a.
 1. Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
 2.  Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.
 Fallow chat, Fallow finch Zool., a small European bird, the wheatear (Saxicola œnanthe). See Wheatear.