Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several bulbous Eurasian plants of the genus Galanthus, having solitary, nodding white flowers that bloom in early spring.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A low herb. Galanthus nivalis, a very early wild flower of European woods, often cultivated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A bulbous plant (
Galanthus nivalis ) bearing white flowers, which often appear while the snow is on the ground. It is cultivated in gardens for its beauty. - noun See Silver-bell tree, under
Silver , a.
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- noun Any of the 20 species of the
genus Galanthus of theAmaryllidaceae ,bulbous flowering plants , bearing asolitary ,pendulous , white, bell-shaped flower that appears at the end of winter. - verb Australia, slang To steal clothing (especially women's
underwear ) from aclothesline . - verb To drop food aid across a wide area from an
aircraft . - verb sexual slang to transfer
semen from mouth to mouth while kissing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun common anemone of eastern North America with solitary pink-tinged white flowers
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Examples
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All the flowers are awesome, but the snowdrop is my favourite of all–simple, complex, fragrant and happy.
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Botanists disagree on whether the snowdrop is a native British plant or an ornamental flower which was brought in and has now become naturalised.
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The "snowdrop" of the title is a body that is discovered after the thaws: the idea being that in Russia, you can't take surfaces for granted; nor, the narrator explains in a letter to his fiancée, can he be taken for granted either.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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A "snowdrop" is a corpse that lies buried or hidden in the snow until the thaw; also, in my book, a metaphor for dark, close and ultimately inescapable truths that the narrator, a drifting thirtysomething English lawyer, would prefer not to think about.
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The "snowdrop" of the title is a body that is discovered after the thaws: the idea being that in Russia, you can't take surfaces for granted; nor, the narrator explains in a letter to his fiancée, can he be taken for granted either.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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A "snowdrop" is a corpse that lies buried or hidden in the snow until the thaw; also, in my book, a metaphor for dark, close and ultimately inescapable truths that the narrator, a drifting thirtysomething English lawyer, would prefer not to think about.
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Identifying new cultivars of snowdrop takes an expert eye.
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We are planning to go to Strathardle tomorrow for snowdrop-and-strawberry planting.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jean 2009
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Many of the little snowdrop shoots are already two or three inches tall, some showing bud.
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I had stayed up all night forgetting: my parents are alive, my brother's girlfriend isn't round, my skin is snowdrop white besides a few brown freckles.
Snowdrop White 2010
frogapplause commented on the word snowdrop
A "snowdrop" is a corpse that lies buried or hidden in the snow until the thaw.
--The Guardian World News. Link here
March 12, 2013
plaid commented on the word snowdrop
I just remembered what that reminds me of - the tagline from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, "Det som göms i snö kommer fram vid tö," an old Swedish proverb meaning "what is hidden in snow is revealed at thaw," although obviously not in a morbid way. To me, "snowdrop" is rather... uncreative, as far as kennings go, and to use it as the title of the book seems... let's just say I'm never going to read it.
March 12, 2013
yarb commented on the word snowdrop
I read a novel called "Snowdrops" recently, set in Moscow. Wasn't really my cuppa but I love the snowdrop concept.
March 13, 2013