noun
North American blackbird whose bluish-black plumage is rusty-edged in the fall
• Syn: ↑rusty grackle, ↑Euphagus carilonus
• Hypernyms: ↑New World blackbird, ↑blackbird
• Member Holonyms: ↑Euphagus, ↑genus Euphagus
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noun or rusty grackle : a blackbird (Euphagus carolinus) of the eastern United States whose adult male has a white iris and a uniformly blue-black color in spring but in the fall has the edges of the feathers become rusty
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a North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall. Also called rusty grackle.
[1850-55, Amer.]
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rusty blackbird,
a blackbird of northern and eastern North America, solid black in the spring and rusty in the fall.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.