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Grackle vs Gracile - What's the difference?

grackle | gracile |

As a noun grackle

is any of several american blackbirds of the genus quiscalus having iridescent plumage.

As an adjective gracile is

slender; thin; lean.

grackle

English

(wikipedia grackle)

Noun

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

    • Derived terms

    * boat-tailed grackle * Carib grackle * common grackle * golden-tufted grackle * greater Antillean grackle * great-tailed grackle * mountain grackle * Nicaraguan grackle * red-bellied grackle * slender-billed grackle * velvet-fronted grackle

    gracile

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Slender; thin; lean.
  • * 1853 , Works of Walter Savage Landor:
  • *:Unswathe his Egyptian mummy; and ... you disclose the grave features and gracile bones of ... a cat
  • * 1971 , :
  • *:Gracile ... By some recent writers misused (through association with grace ) for "Gracefully slender":
  • * 2005 , , The Ancestor's Tale :
    • They seem to have evolved from more ‘gracile'’ apes (' gracile being the opposite of robust).
  • * 2009 , Clive Finlayson, Neanderthals and Modern Humans :
    • A more gracile morphology would have been far more efficient over larger areas.
  • Graceful or gracefully slender.

    • Derived terms

    * gracility

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