black-capped chickadee

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   chickadee having a dark crown

   SynonymsblackcapParus atricapillus

   Broaderchickadee

Questions about black-capped chickadee

What does black-capped chickadee mean?

black-capped chickadee means "chickadee having a dark crown".

What is another word for black-capped chickadee?

Close synonyms include blackcap, Parus atricapillus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black-capped chickadee a common word?

black-capped chickadee is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.