grackle

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Any of several American blackbirds of the family Icteridae, especially of the genus Quiscalus, having iridescent blackish plumage. Also called crow blackbird.
2. n. Any of several Asian mynas of the genus Gracula.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Some or any bird of the genus Gracula, or of one of the synonymous genera, of the old world. The birds to which the name usually attaches are those of the genera Eulabes and Acridotheres in a large sense; but the application is vague and fluctuating. Gracula or Eulabes religiosa is the religious grackle, or mina (see cut under Eulabes); G. gryllivora or Acridotheres tristis is the Indian paradise-grackle.
2. n. An American icterine passerine bird of the family Icteridæ and chiefly of the subfamily Quiscalinæ: as, the purple grackle, or crowblackbird, Quiscalus purpureus (see cut under crow-blackbird); the boat-tailed or Texas grackle, Q. major; the rusty grackle, Scolecophagus ferrugineus.
3. n. Also spelled grakle.
4. n. In angling, the name of an artificial fly used in bass-fishing.

Wiktionary

1. n. Any of several American blackbirds of the genus Quiscalus having iridescent plumage
2. n. Any of several Asian myna birds of the genus Gracula

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridæ; 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.
2. n. An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See myna.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech
2. n. long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage