Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small warbler (Sylvia atricapilla) of Eurasia and Africa, the male of which is gray with a black crown.
- noun Any of various other black-crowned birds, such as the chickadee.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who wears a black cap.
- noun A name given to various birds having the top of the head black.
- noun The cattail reed, Typha latifolia.
- noun A popular name of the plant and fruit of the black-fruited raspberry, Rubus occidentalis, occurring wild in many portions of the United States, and also cultivated in several varieties. Also called
thimbleberry . - noun An apple roasted until it is black.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small European song bird (
Sylvia atricapilla ), with a black crown; the mock nightingale. - noun An American titmouse (
Parus atricapillus ); the chickadee. Also called theblack-cap chickadee . - noun (Cookery) An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.
- noun The black raspberry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
Old World warbler , Sylvia atricapilla, which is mainly grey with a black crown. - noun
Whitebark raspberry . - noun An
American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); thechickadee . - noun archaic, cookery An
apple roasted until black, to be served in a dish of boiledcustard .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun chickadee having a dark crown
- noun small black-headed European gull
- noun small brownish-grey warbler with a black crown
- noun raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit
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Examples
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The blackcap is a fine songbird, with its inventive, fluting notes.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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The blackcap is a fine songbird, with its inventive, fluting notes.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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He might have expected Chopin with a beak: lyrical cascades and liquid melodies that give its relative, the blackcap, the name "northern nightingale".
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Blackthorn blossom foams along the sides of shorn hedgerows but grows unchecked with willow catkins and flowering gorse bushes in neglected thickets which shelter the returned chiffchaff and blackcap.
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Plumage characters suggest that the Abyssinian catbird is a babbler whose nearest relative may be the bush blackcap, Lioptilus nigricapillus, found in the thickets and forests of eastern South Africa.
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Yellow buttercups and blue speedwells in the grass, leaves eager with fresh rain in trees above; chiffchaff and blackcap singing; she was not dead yet.
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• Other species you can hear include wood pigeon, carrion crow, blue tit, blackcap, mallard, pheasant, coot and the great-crested grebe.
Listen to the National Trust audio guide to Britain's bird species 2010
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The trust has recorded birds at Woodchester Park in Gloucestershire and created an online audio guide to some of Britain's best-loved species, from favourites such as the robin and members of the tit family to the blackcap and great-crested grebe.
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At ten to four I was awoken by a blackcap hopping along the tin roof, then striking up the most exquisite warbling, at first utterly solo in the half-light, soon joined by other birds.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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At ten to four I was awoken by a blackcap hopping along the tin roof, then striking up the most exquisite warbling, at first utterly solo in the half-light, soon joined by other birds.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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