Meaning | Any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black. |
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Synonym | blackbird |
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Narrower | cowbird | North American blackbird that follows cattle and lays eggs in other birds' nests |
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grackle, crow blackbird | long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage |
red-winged blackbird, redwing, Agelaius phoeniceus | North American blackbird with scarlet patches on the wings |
rusty blackbird, rusty grackle, Euphagus carilonus | North American blackbird whose bluish-black plumage is rusty-edged in the fall |
Broader | New World oriole, American oriole, oriole | American songbird |
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Spanish | soldadito, turpial |
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