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snow-flower
Also snowflower.
†1. = snowdrop 1. Obs.
1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. 81 December... Flowers in Prime,..Snow flowers or drops, Yucca, &c.
2. (See quot.)
1836Backwoods Canada 240–1 The hepatica is the first flower of the Canadian spring... [They] call it snow-flower, from its coming so soon after the snow disappears.
3. = snowdrop tree 1.
1862Chambers's Encycl. IV. 527/1 The Common Fringe tree or Snowflower..has..very numerous snow-white flowers in panicled racemes. 1866Treas. Bot. 1067/2 Snowflower, Chionanthus virginica. |