grackle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: grackle	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for grackle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
grackle n glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech Synonym(s): hill myna, Indian grackle, grackle, Gracula religiosa long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage Synonym(s): grackle, crow blackbird
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Grackle \Grac"kle\, n. [Cf. L. graculus jackdaw.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) One of several American blackbirds, of the family {Icterid[91]}; 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}.