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Webster 1913 Edition

Grackle

Grac′kle

,

Noun.

[Cf. L.

graculus

jackdaw.]

(Zool.)

(a)

One of several American blackbirds, of the family

Icteridæ

;

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

.

(b)

An Asiatic bird of the genus

Gracula

. See

.