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noun

Blackcap n.

(Zool.)

(a)

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

(b)

An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee. Also called the black-cap chickadee.

(Cookery) An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.

The black raspberry.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Blackcap" Quotes from Famous Books

... the afternoon Mr. Jones appeared, and I was glad to see him, for there were some kinds of work about which I wanted his advice. At one end of the garden were several rows of blackcap raspberry bushes, which had grown into an awful snarl. The old canes that had borne fruit the previous season were still standing, ragged and unsightly; the new stalks that would bear the coming season sprawled in every direction; and I had found that many ...

— Driven Back to Eden • E. P. Roe

... confinement to learn that of other birds instead. Bechstein gives an account of a redstart which had built under the eaves of his house, which imitated the song of a caged chaffinch in a window underneath, while another in his neighbour's garden repeated some of the notes of a blackcap, which had a ...

— Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - A Series of Essays • Alfred Russel Wallace