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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1667 1. any of several birds with black heads or crowns: as a. a small gray European warbler (Sylvia atricapilla) with a black crown b. chickadee 2. black raspberry

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a small warbler, Sylvia atricapilla, the male of which has a black-topped head.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Blackcap Black"cap` (-k[a^]p`), n. 1. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale. (b) An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Blackcap warbler, mock-nightingale (Corucca or Curruca atricapilla).