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blackcaps

blackcaps is the plural of blackcap.

Meaning of blackcap

Noun

blackcap (plural blackcaps)

  1. A small Old World warbler, Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), which is mainly grey with a black crown.
  2. (UK, US, dialectal, obsolete) Any of various species of titmouse (of the family Paridae), including the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, syn. Parus atricapillus).
    • 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 [translating capofuscolo], she collected them and presented them to the king with the same message.2007, Giambattista Basile, translated by Nancy L. Canepa, Tale of Tales, Penguin, II.4
  3. An apple roasted until black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.
  4. (Canada, US) The blackcap raspberry (Rubus leucodermis).

Phrases with blackcaps

Questions about blackcaps

What is blackcaps the plural of?
Blackcaps is the plural of blackcap.

Words near blackcaps in the dictionary

  1. blackbutt
  2. blackbutts
  3. blackcap
  4. blackcap raspberries
  5. blackcap raspberry
  6. blackcaps
  7. blackcel
  8. blackcels
  9. blackcent
  10. blackcents
  11. blackchin

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