WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
rust′y black′bird,
- Birdsa North American blackbird, Euphagus carolinus, the male of which has plumage that is uniformly bluish-black in the spring and rusty-edged in the fall. Also called rust′y grack′le.
- 1850–55, American.
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