Crossword-Solution: GRACKLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Grackle | n. | One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridae; 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. |
| Grackle | n. | An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See Myna. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “GRACKLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| American songbird with a dark iridescent plumage | 1 answer |
| Black-plumed bird | 1 answer |
| Kind of blackbird | 1 answer |
| Raucous black bird | 1 answer |
| gracula | 1 answer |
| American blackbird. | 2 answers |
| locust bird | 2 answers |
| mynah | 4 answers |
| Oriole | 7 answers |
| Jackdaw | 8 answers |
| MINA bird | 9 answers |
| MINER bird | 9 answers |
| Blackbird | 18 answers |
| Asian bird | 47 answers |
| NORTH American bird | 48 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with GRACKLE (5)
And she’d need it fast! “Just why, you educated nitwit,” he snarled at himself, “didn’t you have sense enough to give her that injection of Sonmol before we hypered! You haven’t the sense of a decerebrate Capellan grackle!” He turned on the radio.
The next day they were more successful, and I was delighted to see them return with a Bird of Paradise in full plumage, a pair of the fine Papuan lories (Lorius domicella), four other lories and parroquets, a grackle (Gracula dumonti), a king-hunter (Dacelo gaudichaudi), a racquet-tailed kingfisher (Tanysiptera galatea), and two or three other birds of less beauty.
The Indian adjutant, the mynah, hoopoe, vulture, robin, phoebe bird, bluebird, swallow, barn owl, flicker, oriole, jay, magpie, crow, purple grackle, starling, stork, wood pigeon, Canada goose, mallard, pintail, bob white and a few other species have accepted man at his face value and endeavored to establish with him a modus vivendi.
Our own native blackbirds, the crow blackbird, the rusty grackle, the cowbird, and the red-shouldered starling, are not songsters, even in the latitude allowable to poets; neither are they whistlers, unless we credit them with a "split-whistle," as Thoreau does.
Everywhere, however, purple and bronze grackle appeared, flying or walking busily over the lawns, sunlight striking the rainbow hackle on their necks, and their pale-yellow or bright-orange eyes staring boldly at the gardeners who dawdled about the flowery labyrinths with watering-can and jointed hose.
Quotes with GRACKLE (1)
Each October I walk into the woodslooking for bones: rabbit skulls, a grackle spine, the pelvis of a deerwith the blood bleached out. What diedin the lush of roses and mintshines out from the tangle of twigsthat bind it to the placeof its last leaping. The living lackthat kind of clarity. In late April, when the water spreads out and outtill everything is lilies and seepage, there is only the mystery of tracks, a rustle receding in the many reeds. And so the bones accumulatea…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1946–2022).