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Blackcap

//ˈblækˌkæp// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small Old World warbler, Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), which is mainly grey with a black crown.
  2. 2
    small brownish-grey warbler with a black crown wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of various species of titmouse (of the family Paridae), including the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, syn. Parus atricapillus). UK, US, dialectal, obsolete

    "Other times the cat would run off to the hunting grounds, either the swamps or the Astroni, and when the hunters shot down an oriole or a great tit or a blackcap [translating capofuscolo], she collected them and presented them to the king with the same message."

  4. 4
    chickadee having a dark crown wordnet
  5. 5
    An apple roasted until black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.
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  1. 6
    small black-headed European gull wordnet
  2. 7
    The blackcap raspberry (Rubus leucodermis). Canada, US
  3. 8
    raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit wordnet

Etymology

From black + cap.

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