blackcap
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English
Etymology
Noun
blackcap (plural blackcaps)
- A small Old World warbler, Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), which is mainly grey with a black crown.
- (obsolete, UK, US, dialectal) Any of various species of titmouse (of the family Paridae), including the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, syn. Parus atricapillus).
- 2007, Giambattista Basile, translated by Nancy L. Canepa, Tale of Tales, Penguin, II.4:
- 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.
- (cooking) An apple roasted until black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.
- (Canada, US) Whitebark raspberry (Rubus leucodermis).
Derived terms
- blackcap raspberry
- bush blackcap (Lioptilus nigricapillus)
- Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla)
- Wilson's blackcap (Wilsonia pusilla)
Translations
Sylvia atricapilla — see Eurasian blackcap