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ˌsnow-on-the-ˈmountain
1. U.S. An annual spurge, Euphorbia marginata, of the family Euphorbiaceæ, native to the central southern United States, and bearing white bracts.
1873Kansas Mag. June 502/2 Their miller's-plant, or snow-on-the-mountain, is nothing but our spurge. 1878–80T. Meehan Native Wild Flowers U.S. Ser. ii. I. 79 This Euphorbia marginata..is called by the people here ‘Snow on the Mountain’. 1918W. Cather My Antonia iv. iv. 364 Every sunflower stalk and clump of snow-on-the-mountain drew itself up high and pointed. 1966Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 27 Aug. (1970) 416 And there is snow-on-the-mountains — everywhere — especially in the meadows.
2. One of several low-growing, white-flowered, cruciferous plants, esp. white alyssum, Arabis alpina, or Alyssum maritimum.
1882H. Friend Gloss. Devon. Plant Names 51 Snow-on-the-Mountain. Alyssum maritimum, L. 1886Britten & Holland Plant Names 440 Snow-on-the-mountain. (1) Arabis alpina..(also Snow-in-summer)... (2) Cerastium tomentosum. 1890J. D. Robertson Gloss. Dial. & Archaic Words Gloucestershire 145 Snow-on-the-mountain. Arabis alpina, L. 1933Downside Rev. LI. 523 The ‘snow-on-the-mountains’ was in full bloom, groups of crocuses were holding out their golden fingers just behind it, and the yellow and white looked like strips of spring sunshine. |