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Grackle   Listen
noun
Grackle  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridae; as, the rusty grackle (Scolecophagus Carolinus); the boat-tailed grackle (see Boat-tail); the purple grackle (Quiscalus quiscula, or Q. versicolor). See Crow blackbird, under Crow.
(b)
An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See Myna.





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"Grackle" Quotes from Famous Books



... lingering taint of joss-sticks. The cardinal birds were very busy in the scarlet masses of Japanese quince; orioles fluttered among golden Forsythia; here and there an exotic starling preened and peered at the burnished purple grackle, stalking solemnly through ...
— Iole • Robert W. Chambers


Words linked to "Grackle" :   purple grackle, myna bird, crow blackbird, Quiscalus quiscula, Quiscalus, genus Quiscalus, Gracula religiosa, hill myna, mina, rusty grackle, New World blackbird, minah, blackbird, mynah bird, mynah


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