单词 | purple grackle |
释义 | > as lemmaspurple grackle purple grackle n. a North American grackle (family Icteridae), the male of which has glossy purplish plumage on the head, now regarded as a common grackle of the nominate subspecies Quiscalus quiscula quiscula. ΚΠ 1782 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. 462 Purple Grakle. 1811 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. IV. 30 The Red-winged Starlings..are..sometimes associated with the Purple Grakles. 1999 Field Guide Birds N. Amer. (National Geographic Soc.) (ed. 3) 438 Smaller ‘Purple Grackle’, quiscula of the southeast, has a narrow bill, purple head, bottle green back, and blue tail. < as lemmas |
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