Grackle

Grackle , noun

[Compare Latin graculus jackdaw.]

(a)

(Zoology) One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icterida; 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)

(Zoology) An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See Myna.