(n.) A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.
(n.) An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee.
(n.) An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.
(n.) The black raspberry.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the estate, from mid-spring to late summer, look out for cuckoos, blackcaps, swallows, swifts and chiffchaffs.
(2) Those that winter north of the Sahara, such as blackcaps and chiffchaffs, have seen substantial increases since the mid-1980s.
(3) One Sunday morning we even had a visit from a smart male blackcap – a species that now spends the winter in the warmer setting of nearby Bristol, but usually shuns our chilly rural garden.
(4) This is our first wintering blackcap for almost a decade, and yet another sign that this winter is so much milder than usual.
Titmouse
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small insectivorous singing birds belonging to Parus and allied genera; -- called also tit, and tomtit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The subfraction compositions of the histone F1 of several tissues from the chicken, pigeon, and titmouse have been compared.