corn snow in British English
noun
skiing, US and Canadian
granular snow formed by alternate freezing and thawing
corn snow in American English
US
snow that has melted and refrozen, as in the spring, to form coarse granules
corn snow in American English
noun
Skiing
snow in the form of small pellets or grains produced by the alternate melting and freezing of a snow layer
Also called: corn, spring snow Word origin
[1930–35]This word is first recorded in the period 1930–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: acoustic phonetics, cloverleaf, hypercorrection, kickback, uncertainty principleImage ofcorn snow
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