Lexic.us

Definition of Blackcap

1. Noun. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.

2. Noun. Small black-headed European gull.

3. Noun. Chickadee having a dark crown.

4. Noun. Small brownish-grey warbler with a black crown.

Definition of Blackcap

1. n. A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.

Definition of Blackcap

1. Noun. A small Old World warbler, ''Sylvia atricapilla'', which is mainly grey with a black crown. ¹

2. Noun. Whitebark raspberry. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Blackcap

1. a small European bird [n -S]

Medical Definition of Blackcap

1. 1. A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale. An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee. 2. An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard. 3. The black raspberry. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackcap

blackboard bold blackboard eraser blackboarded blackboarding blackboards blackbodies blackbody blackbody radiation blackboy blackboys

blackbuck blackbucks blackburnian warbler blackcap (current term) blackcap raspberry blackcaps blackcent blackcents blackchin blackchins

blackcoat blackcoats blackcock blackcocks blackcurrant blackcurrants blackdamp blackdamps

Literary usage of Blackcap

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Birds of Jamaica: Being a History of the Bird, Its Structure, and Habits by Philip Henry Gosse, Alfred Edmund Brehm, Richard Hill (1874)
"THE blackcap (Curruca atricapilla). ... are carefully followed up, the songster may be found, one indeed of the best of the woodland warblers,—the blackcap. ..."

2. A history of British birds by Francis Orpen Morris (1853)
"THE blackcap is more cosmopolite in its character than any other of the British Warblers. It frequents the whole of the temperate parts of Europe, ..."

3. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1914)
"... blackcap. The specimens here shown are better than the average run. having been improved bu Mr. Burbank bu means of selection. ..."

4. A History of British Birds by William YARRELL, Howard Saunders, Alfred Newton (1874)
"THE blackcap. Curruca atricapilla. THE blackcap is a true sylvan Warbler, visiting this country from the South and East every spring, arriving about the ..."

5. Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Bookedited by Charles Morris edited by Charles Morris (1921)
"The blackcap is met with in Eng- judges, most of the jurymen and many land from April ... The American blackcap is a spe- ' ' iron-stone containing cies of ..."

6. Our native songsters by Anne Pratt (1852)
"song of the nightingale, is that of the blackcap* (Curruca atricapilla), the rich notes of which reach us earlier in the spring, and are so gladsome, ..."

7. The Birds of Jamaica: Being a History of the Bird, Its Structure, and Habits by Philip Henry Gosse, Alfred Edmund Brehm, Richard Hill (1874)
"THE blackcap (Curruca atricapilla). ... are carefully followed up, the songster may be found, one indeed of the best of the woodland warblers,—the blackcap. ..."

8. A history of British birds by Francis Orpen Morris (1853)
"THE blackcap is more cosmopolite in its character than any other of the British Warblers. It frequents the whole of the temperate parts of Europe, ..."

9. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1914)
"... blackcap. The specimens here shown are better than the average run. having been improved bu Mr. Burbank bu means of selection. ..."

10. A History of British Birds by William YARRELL, Howard Saunders, Alfred Newton (1874)
"THE blackcap. Curruca atricapilla. THE blackcap is a true sylvan Warbler, visiting this country from the South and East every spring, arriving about the ..."

11. Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Bookedited by Charles Morris edited by Charles Morris (1921)
"The blackcap is met with in Eng- judges, most of the jurymen and many land from April ... The American blackcap is a spe- ' ' iron-stone containing cies of ..."

12. Our native songsters by Anne Pratt (1852)
"song of the nightingale, is that of the blackcap* (Curruca atricapilla), the rich notes of which reach us earlier in the spring, and are so gladsome, ..."

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