blackcap

Meanings

Plural: blackcaps

Noun

• raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit
• small black-headed European gull
• chickadee having a dark crown
• small brownish-grey warbler with a black crown
• A small Old World warbler, Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), which is mainly grey with a black crown.
• Any of various species of titmouse (of the family Paridae), including the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, syn. Parus atricapillus).
• An apple roasted until black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.
• The blackcap raspberry (Rubus leucodermis).

Synonyms

black raspberry, black-capped chickadee, blackcap raspberry, Larus ridibundus, laughing gull, Parus atricapillus, pewit, pewit gull, Rubus occidentalis, Silvia atricapilla, thimbleberry