Subscriber login
Password
Forgot your password?
Library card login
Login with Shibboleth® »
Login with Athens »
Close menu
Oxford Dictionaries Online
The world's most trusted dictionaries
About
Subscriber services
What's new
Contact us
Help
Subscribe now
Already a subscriber or in a subscribing organization?
Login
Dictionary
Other language resources
US English
World English
Dictionary
Better writing
World of words
Puzzles and games
For children and schools
For learners of English
Email
Cite
purple martin
(pur·ple mar·tin)
Entry from US Dictionary
noun
a martin with purplish-blue plumage. It is the largest North American swallow, and the male is the only swallow with uniform dark plumage on its belly.
Progne subis
, family
Hirundinidae
Nearby Words
purlieu
purlin
purloin
puro
puromycin
purple
purple emperor
purple gallinule
purple heart
purple martin
purple passage
purple patch
purple prose
purple state
purple-leaf plum
purport
purpose
purpose-built
purposeful