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black capped chickadee

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black-capped chickadee

[blak-kapt] .
–noun
See under chickadee.

Origin:
1870–75, Americanism

chick⋅a⋅dee

[chik-uh-dee]
–noun
any of several North American birds of the genus Parus, of the titmouse family, esp. P. atricapillus (black-capped chickadee), having the throat and top of the head black.

Origin:
1820–30; imit.
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chickadee 
1838, Amer.Eng., echoic of its cry.
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