BLACKCAP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blackcap mean? 

• BLACKCAP (noun)
  The noun BLACKCAP has 4 senses:

1. raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit

2. small black-headed European gull

3. chickadee having a dark crown

4. small brownish-grey warbler with a black crown

  Familiarity information: BLACKCAP used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACKCAP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

black raspberry; blackcap; blackcap raspberry; Rubus occidentalis; thimbleberry

Hypernyms ("blackcap" is a kind of...):

raspberry; raspberry bush (woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries)

Meronyms (parts of "blackcap"):

raspberry (red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small black-headed European gull

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

blackcap; Larus ridibundus; laughing gull; pewit; pewit gull

Hypernyms ("blackcap" is a kind of...):

gull; sea gull; seagull (mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs)

Holonyms ("blackcap" is a member of...):

genus Larus; Larus (type genus of the Laridae)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Chickadee having a dark crown

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

black-capped chickadee; blackcap; Parus atricapillus

Hypernyms ("blackcap" is a kind of...):

chickadee (any of various small grey-and-black songbirds of North America)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Small brownish-grey warbler with a black crown

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

blackcap; Silvia atricapilla

Hypernyms ("blackcap" is a kind of...):

Old World warbler; true warbler (small active brownish or greyish Old World birds)

Holonyms ("blackcap" is a member of...):

genus Silvia; Silvia (type genus of the Sylviidae: warblers)