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单词 snow-flower
释义

snow-flowern.

Forms: Also snowflower.
1. = snowdrop n. 1. Obsolete.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > snowdrop
snowdrop1664
snow-flower1664
fair maid of February1754
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 81 in Sylva December... Flowers in Prime..Snow flowers or drops, Yucca, &c.
2. (See quot. 1836.)
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1836 C. P. Traill Backwoods of 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 n. 1.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > fringe-tree
snowdrop tree1731
fringe-tree1775
old man's beard1797
snow-flower1862
fringe-flower1882
1862 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 527/1 The Common Fringe tree or Snowflower..has..very numerous snow-white flowers in panicled racemes.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1067/2 Snowflower, Chionanthus virginica.
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