blackcap

English

Etymology

From black +‎ cap.

Noun

blackcap (plural blackcaps)

1. (obsolete, UK, US, regional) Any of various species of titmouse (of the family Paridae), including the black-capped chickadee (, syn. ). [17th–19th c.]
2. A small Old World warbler (Eurasian blackcap, ), 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 [translating ], she collected them and presented them to the king with the same message.

3. (cooking) An apple roasted until black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard. [from 18th c.]
4. (Canada, US) Whitebark raspberry (). [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

• bush blackcap ()
• Eurasian blackcap ())
• Wilson's blackcap ()

Translations

Sylvia atricapilla

• Bulgarian: черноглаво коприварче n (černoglavo koprivarče)
• Catalan: tallarol de casquet m
• Danish: munk (da) c
• Faroese: munkur m
• Finnish: mustapääkerttu (fi)
• French: fauvette à tête noire (fr) f
• Galician: papuxa f
• German: Mönchsgrasmücke f
• Irish: caipín dubh m
• Italian: capinera (it) f
• Latvian: melngalvas ķauķis m
• Lule Sami: tjáhppisvitsur
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• Norman: marté m (Jersey), craquelîn m (Jersey)
• Northern Sami: gahpervizar
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: munk (no) m

• Polish: kapturka (pl)
• Portuguese: toutinegra f
• Russian: сла́вка-черноголо́вка f (slávka-černogolóvka)
• Spanish: curruca capirotada f
• Swedish: svarthätta c
• Volapük: blägakapasilvid (vo)
• Welsh: penddu m or f

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