Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Resembling snow; snowy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Snowy; partaking of the qualities of snow; resembling snow; pure and brilliant white, as the wings of certain moths.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Snowy; resembling snow; partaking of the qualities of snow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Snowy ; resemblingsnow .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Roofless walls of niveous stone and truncated alabaster columns, never completed and now wreathed by thick vines, covered the leveled top of the mountain.
Conan The Triumphant Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983
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Strong, slender fingers tested the niveous marble carvings of the wall, and then she was climbing like a monkey.
Conan The Triumphant Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983
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As there be tides in the affairs of men which taken at the flood lead on to fortune, so there be waves which straddled at the proper time will bear a Halliwell on their niveous crest to the dizzy heights of fame, quicker'n the nictitation of a thomas-cat.
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"Yes, my dear daughter," said her venerable son-in-law, running his fingers through his niveous thatch, "he was the first of the time - wasting Van Winkles."
Her Weight in Gold George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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(b) Observations of the niveous and glacial features met with on the sledging journeys from both Antarctic bases.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920
she commented on the word niveous
Snowy, resembling snow; white and lustrous.
August 10, 2008
duckbill commented on the word niveous
Cinabar becomes red by the acid exhalation of sulphur, which otherways presents a pure and niveous white. - Brown.
April 20, 2011
yarb commented on the word niveous
Is it closer to white, or brown?
April 20, 2011