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Purple grackle   /pˈərpəl grˈækəl/   Listen
adjective
Purple  adj.  
1.
Exhibiting or possessing the color called purple, much esteemed for its richness and beauty; of a deep red, or red and blue color; as, a purple robe.
2.
Imperial; regal; so called from the color having been an emblem of imperial authority. "Hide in the dust thy purple pride."
3.
Blood-red; bloody. "May such purple tears be alway shed." "I view a field of blood, And Tiber rolling with a purple blood."
Purple bird (Zool.), the European purple gallinule. See under Gallinule.
Purple copper ore. (Min.) See Bornite.
Purple grackle (Zool.), the crow blackbird. See under Crow.
Purple martin. See under Martin.
Purple sandpiper. See under Sandpiper.
Purple shell. See Ianthina.





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"Purple grackle" Quotes from Famous Books



... Blackbird, crow, or purple grackle (Quiscalus quiscula). Bluebird (Sialia sialis). Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). Bunting, black-throated or dickcissel (Spiza americana). Bunting, snow (Passerina nivalis). Buzzard, turkey, ...
— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs


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