Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling snow.

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  • adjective Resembling snow.

Etymologies

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snow +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Areas of snowlike foam appear and then dissolve and there is a constant rushing, washing sound, the dull and distant rasp and thud of the engine.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • The beams revealed a white, snowlike material that carpeted the soil and clung to the rusted metal piping and the equipment like Spanish moss hanging from the branches in a Louisiana bayou.

    Bodily Harm Robert Dugoni 2010

  • Areas of snowlike foam appear and then dissolve and there is a constant rushing, washing sound, the dull and distant rasp and thud of the engine.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • Areas of snowlike foam appear and then dissolve and there is a constant rushing, washing sound, the dull and distant rasp and thud of the engine.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • Moving west, another set of back roads leads to the Santa Agnes valley, filled with almond groves whose blooms in January and February draw pilgrims from all over the island, especially during the full moon, which shines on the snowlike white blossoms.

    The Other Ibiza 2010

  • Here in Brooklyn, we have a Botanical Gardens that has Cherry Blossom Trees and when they're in full bloom, it's almost snowlike especially when the petals fall.

    Earth Day doyle 2009

  • The 60-mile-high plume is probably sulfur dioxide; parts are gaseous and the rest has frozen into a snowlike substance.

    Jupiter Steals The Show 2008

  • The nostalgic music and drifting snowlike petals reminded Grace of a pretty scene in a musical glass globe.

    Sonnet of the Sphinx Diana Killian 2006

  • He runs his plane over the large foam surfboard and snowlike flakes of white foam spray in the air with each pass.

    Soul Surfer Bethany Hamilton 2004

  • He runs his plane over the large foam surfboard and snowlike flakes of white foam spray in the air with each pass.

    Soul Surfer Bethany Hamilton 2004

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