blackcap
Noun
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Noun
blackcap (plural blackcaps)
- (obsolete, UK, US, regional) Any of various species of titmouse (of the family Paridae), including the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, syn. Parus atricapillus). [17th–19th c.]
- A small Old World warbler (Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), which is mainly grey with a black crown. [from 17th c.]
- 2007, Nancy L. Canepa, translating Giambattista Basile, Tale of Tales, Penguin 2007, 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 transterm capofuscolo, she collected them and presented them to the king with the same message.
- 2007, Nancy L. Canepa, translating Giambattista Basile, Tale of Tales, Penguin 2007, II.4:
- (cookery) An apple roasted until black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard. [from 18th c.]
- (North America) Whitebark raspberry (Rubus leucodermis). [from 19th c.]
- French: fauvette à tête noire
- German: Mönchsgrasmücke
- Italian: capinera
- Portuguese: toutinegra
- Russian: сла́вка-черноголо́вка
- Spanish: curruca capirotada
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