purple grackle

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   eastern United States grackle

   SynonymsQuiscalus quiscula

   Broadergrackle

Questions about purple grackle

What does purple grackle mean?

purple grackle means "eastern United States grackle".

What is another word for purple grackle?

Close synonyms include Quiscalus quiscula. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is purple grackle a common word?

purple grackle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.