snowdrop

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any of the 20 species of the genus Galanthus of the Amaryllidaceae, bulbous flowering plants, bearing a solitary, pendulous, white, bell-shaped flower that appears, depending on species, between autumn and late winter or early spring, all native to temperate Eurasia.
Alternative letter-case form of Snowdrop (“a Royal Air Force police officer”).

verb

noun

/ˈsnəʊ.dɹɒp/ snōʹdräp /ˈsnoʊ.dɹɑp/ En-us-snowdrop.ogg en-au-snowdrop.ogg

snowdrop snowdrops snowdropping snowdropped

From snow + drop.

galanthophile

Caucasian snowdrop Crimean snowdrop giant snowdrop snowdrop anemone snowdrop tree snowdrop windflower yellow snowdrop Erythronium spp.) snowdropper

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