grackle

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of several blackbirds of the family Icteridae found throughout the Americas, especially those of the genus Quiscalus, having iridescent blackish plumage.
• noun Any of several Asian mynas of the genus Gracula.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In angling, the name of an artificial fly used in bass-fishing.
• noun Some or any bird of the genus Gracula, or of one of the synonymous genera, of the old world.
• noun 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.
• noun Also spelled grakle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun 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.
• noun An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See myna.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Any of several American blackbirds of the genus Quiscalus having iridescent plumage
• noun Any of several Asian myna birds of the genus Gracula

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech
• noun long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage