blackcap

2 definitions found

blackcap - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Blackcap \Black"cap`\ (-k[a^]p`), n.
     1. (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.
            [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Cookery) An apple roasted till black, to be served in a
        dish of boiled custard.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. The black raspberry.
        [1913 Webster]

blackcap - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  blackcap
      n 1: raspberry native to eastern North America having black
           thimble-shaped fruit [syn: black raspberry, blackcap,
           blackcap raspberry, thimbleberry, Rubus occidentalis]
      2: small black-headed European gull [syn: laughing gull,
         blackcap, pewit, pewit gull, Larus ridibundus]
      3: chickadee having a dark crown [syn: black-capped chickadee,
         blackcap, Parus atricapillus]
      4: small brownish-grey warbler with a black crown [syn:
         blackcap, Silvia atricapilla]