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Snowflake   Listen
noun
Snowflake  n.  
1.
A flake, or small filmy mass, of snow.
2.
(Zool.) See Snowbird, 1.
3.
(Bot.) A name given to several bulbous plants of the genus Leucoium (Leucoium vernum, Leucoium aestivum, etc.) resembling the snowdrop, but having all the perianth leaves of equal size.






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"Snowflake" Quotes from Famous Books



... mind, born of the patent and the remembered aspect. It reminds you of a friend who has been suddenly placed in new circumstances, in whom there is much that you recognise, and much that is entirely strange. How purely, divinely white when the last snowflake has just fallen! How exquisite and virginal the repose! It touches you like some perfection of music. And winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles. Pluck a single ivy leaf from the old wall, and see what a jeweller he is! ...
— Dreamthorp - A Book of Essays Written in the Country • Alexander Smith

... he said, yet he finally yielded to his wife's almost frantic appeals and gave his consent. The dear little thing was relieved almost immediately, and at the end of two hours, after eating a wholesome meal, was wrapped in a blanket and carried on deck, weak and white as a snowflake, it is true, but entirely free from the dreadful nausea, and smiling happily as she lay in her father's arms and breathed in the fresh, pure air. The next day she was dressed and playing about ...
— Katherine's Sheaves • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

... vaguely understood that here there was somewhat amiss, and forthwith proceeded to offer her sympathy after her own fashion, which, when all is said, is about the oldest and sweetest form that sympathy can take. Silently she got to her feet, climbed on Moll's lap, and laid a kiss—light as a snowflake, holy as a benediction, pregnant as a prayer—upon the woman's broad, sunburnt brow. Then she tumbled on to the shelf beside Darby, and soon both were wrapped in the deep, dreamless ...
— Two Little Travellers - A Story for Girls • Frances Browne Arthur

... every petal being tipped with green, dropping in a cluster of from six to eight blooms, each nearly 1 in. long. They grow freely in almost any soil, sandy loam being preferable. Increased by off-sets from the bulb, or by seed as soon as it is ripe. The spring snowflake blooms in March, the summer variety in June. The latter is a much more vigorous plant than the former. Height, ...
— Gardening for the Million • Alfred Pink

... catch the words he said That were light as a snowflake falling; Ah well that he never leaned to hear The words ...
— Helen of Troy and Other Poems • Sara Teasdale



Words linked to "Snowflake" :   Plectrophenax, snow bunting, snowfall, summer snowflake, Plectrophenax nivalis, water



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