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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small bulbous plant (Chionodoxa forbesii) native to southwest Asia, Crete, and Cyprus, cultivated for its early-blooming blue flowers.
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- noun The
plant Chionodoxa luciliae, one of the earliest toflower in thespring .
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Examples
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As the snowdrops and winter aconite begin to depart, glory-of-the-snow, Siberian squill, dwarf iris, and puschkinia might arrive.
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The slope was originally covered with grass and a few patches of snowdrops, Siberian squill and glory-of-the-snow that the previous owner had planted.
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Scilla, glory-of-the-snow, dwarf iris, puschkinia and grape hyacinths are bulbs whose blooms follow close behind.
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Think snowdrops, scilla, glory-of-the-snow and crocus, for example, but you have to plant them by the hundreds, if not the thousands, for them to have any sort of landscape effect.
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The season starts out with winter aconites and snowdrops, followed by glory-of-the-snow, bulbous Iris reticulata, crocuses, Siberian squill,
Garden Rant 2008
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The season starts out with winter aconites and snowdrops, followed by glory-of-the-snow, bulbous Iris reticulata, crocuses, Siberian squill,
Garden Rant 2008
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The season starts out with winter aconites and snowdrops, followed by glory-of-the-snow, bulbous Iris reticulata, crocuses, Siberian squill,
Garden Rant 2008
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The season starts out with winter aconites and snowdrops, followed by glory-of-the-snow, bulbous Iris reticulata, crocuses, Siberian squill,
Garden Rant 2008
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The season starts out with winter aconites and snowdrops, followed by glory-of-the-snow, bulbous Iris reticulata, crocuses, Siberian squill,
Garden Rant 2008
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The season starts out with winter aconites and snowdrops, followed by glory-of-the-snow, bulbous Iris reticulata, crocuses, Siberian squill,
Garden Rant 2008
anydelirium commented on the word glory-of-the-snow
An early spring-blooming bulb flower, botanically known as Chionodoxa luciliae.
February 17, 2008