Wheat"sel bird` (?). (Zoöl.) The male of the chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.]

Wheat"stone's bridge` (?). (Elec.) See under Bridge.

Wheat"worm` (?), n. (Zoöl.) A small nematode worm (Anguillula tritici)

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.

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