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Definition of snowcap in English: snowcapnounˈsnəʊkapˈsnōˌkap 1A covering of snow on the top of a mountain. Example sentencesExamples - Mt. Kilimanjaro's once majestic snowcap has melted to the point where it will now disappear by 2020.
- Eliasson's point of focus is the ‘tongue,’ the geological term for glacial movement in which a mountain snowcap melts, runs down into, a valley and refreezes.
- There's been a lot in the news lately about the alleged effects of warming on the snowcap of Kilimanjaro.
- I could wait for summer, and take the same picture again in morning light - but by the time the sun is in the right place, the snowcap will have melted.
- The best way to see it is on foot, along the five-day Druk Path between Paro and Thimpu, camping against a backdrop of towering snowcaps.
- All you can get in this place are postcards of snowcaps and old Catholic churches.
- You can see the snowcaps of the Big Island on clear days.
- During the day, you ride, go to the geysers up among the snowcaps or walk the volcano.
- The energy reflected was far more than expected, and the beam melted the snowcap.
- ‘We started out with about 17,’ he says after a brief hallucination in which the snowcaps of the Rockies were actually huge drifts of cocaine, ‘but we lost a bunch of people on the way.’
2A small Central American hummingbird with mainly purple plumage and a white crown. Microchera albocoronata, family Trochilidae Definition of snowcap in US English: snowcapnounˈsnōˌkap 1A covering of snow on the top of a mountain. Example sentencesExamples - The best way to see it is on foot, along the five-day Druk Path between Paro and Thimpu, camping against a backdrop of towering snowcaps.
- The energy reflected was far more than expected, and the beam melted the snowcap.
- Eliasson's point of focus is the ‘tongue,’ the geological term for glacial movement in which a mountain snowcap melts, runs down into, a valley and refreezes.
- There's been a lot in the news lately about the alleged effects of warming on the snowcap of Kilimanjaro.
- ‘We started out with about 17,’ he says after a brief hallucination in which the snowcaps of the Rockies were actually huge drifts of cocaine, ‘but we lost a bunch of people on the way.’
- During the day, you ride, go to the geysers up among the snowcaps or walk the volcano.
- You can see the snowcaps of the Big Island on clear days.
- All you can get in this place are postcards of snowcaps and old Catholic churches.
- I could wait for summer, and take the same picture again in morning light - but by the time the sun is in the right place, the snowcap will have melted.
- Mt. Kilimanjaro's once majestic snowcap has melted to the point where it will now disappear by 2020.
2A small Central American hummingbird with mainly purple plumage and a white crown. Microchera albocoronata, family Trochilidae |