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单词 snow-wreath
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snow-wreathn.

/ˈsnəʊriːθ/
Etymology: < snow n.1
1. A heap of snow blown together by the wind; a snowdrift.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > an accumulation or expanse of snow > snow-drift
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1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 199 The tenants..were not actually turned out of doors among the snow wreaths.
1855 J. S. C. Abbott Hist. Napoleon II. ix. 139 The outer ranks..melted like snow-wreaths on the river's brink.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets xi. 357 The oxen came Down from the mountain through the snow-wreaths deep.
2. As a plant-name (see quot. 1901).
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1901 Cycl. Amer. Hort.: N–Q 1079 [Neviusia] Alabamensis, Gray. Snow Wreath.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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