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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A mass or bank of snow piled up by the wind.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A drift of snow; snow driven by the wind; also, a bank of snow driven together by the wind.
  • noun Same as snow-on-the-mountain, 1.
  • noun The sweet alyssum, Aduseton maritimum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A bank of drifted snow.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A bank of snow accumulated by the wind.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a mass of snow heaped up by the wind

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