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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech;
[syn: hill myna, Indian grackle, grackle, Gracula religiosa]

2. long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage;
[syn: grackle, crow blackbird]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Grackle \Grac"kle\, n. [Cf. L. graculus jackdaw.] (Zool.) (a) One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icterid[ae]; 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

grackle n 1: glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech [syn: hill myna, Indian grackle, grackle, Gracula religiosa] 2: long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage [syn: grackle, crow blackbird]