blackcap

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black⋅cap

[blak-kap]

–noun

1.	any of several birds having the top of the head black, as the chickadee and certain warblers, esp. the Old World blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla.

2.	the black raspberry plant or fruit.

Origin:
1650–60; black + cap ¹

–noun

1.	the edible fruit of a prickly North American clambering shrub, Rubus occidentalis, resembling a raspberry in form and a blackberry in color.

2.	the plant itself.

Also called blackcap.

Origin:
1775–85, Americanism

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black·cap (blāk'kāp')

See black raspberry.
1. A small European warbler (Sylvia atricapilla), the male of which is gray with a black crown.
2. Any of various other black-crowned birds, such as the chickadee.

black raspberry
n.

A prickly eastern North American shrub (Rubus occidentalis) having an aggregate, edible, juicy, purple-black fruit. Also called blackcap.
The fruit of this plant.

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