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BLACKCAP

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small brownish-grey warbler with a black crown

Synonyms:

blackcap; Silvia atricapilla

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Chickadee having a dark crown

Synonyms:

black-capped chickadee; blackcap; Parus atricapillus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

Small black-headed European gull

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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 4

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

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