Definition of "blackcap" [black•cap]

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

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The blackcap is a fine songbird, with its inventive, fluting notes."
• "Yellow buttercups and blue speedwells in the grass, leaves eager with fresh rain in trees above; chiffchaff and blackcap singing; she was not dead yet."
• "He might have expected Chopin with a beak: lyrical cascades and liquid melodies that give its relative, the blackcap, the name "northern nightingale"."