snowdrop en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈsnoʊ.dɹɑp/ (General-American)
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- snōʹdräp (General-American)
- /ˈsnəʊ.dɹɒp/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From snow + drop.
Meanings
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Any of the 20 species of the genus Galanthus of the Amaryllidaceae, bulbous flowering plants, bearing a solitary, pendulous, white, bell-shaped flower that appears, depending on species, between autumn and late winter or early spring, all native to temperate Eurasia.
A flower that first in this sweet garden smiled, / To virgins sacred, and the Snow-drop styled.
1722, Thomas Tickell, Kensington Garden, London: Printed for J[acob] Tonson, in the Strand, OCLC 270894685; republished in The Poems of Garth, and Tickell (The British Poets. Including Translations. In One Hundred Volumes; XXVII), Chiswick, Middlesex: From the press of C[harles] Whittingham, College House, 1822, OCLC 16074759, page 166White Ladies did not mean snowdrops, by their pretty old English name, ghosts in white cere-clothes, or belles in white tarlatan.
1865, Ouida [pseudonym; Marie Louise de la Ramée], “White Ladies”, in Strathmore: A Romance. … In Three Volumes, London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, OCLC 4557613; republished as Strathmore: A Romance. … In Two Volumes (Collection of British Authors; 1169), volume I, Tauchnitz edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1871, OCLC 798495291, page 9Tufts of primroses grew under the still leafless trees; the hepatica had succeeded the snowdrop.
1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 281:[I]t was considered unlucky to decorate a room with cut snowdrops. The name death's flower relates to an old belief that a solitary snowdrop indicates impending death, with suggestions that it was inauspicious to bring snowdrops indoors.
2016, Gail Harland, Snowdrop (Botanical), London: Reaktion Books, →ISBN:
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(alt-of) Alternative letter-case form of Snowdrop (“a Royal Air Force police officer”).
alt of Snowdrop
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| snowdrops | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
snowdrop windflower · yellow snowdrop Erythronium spp.) · Crimean snowdrop · snowdrop anemone · giant snowdrop · Caucasian snowdrop · snowdrop tree
Relateds
Translations (59)
sd برف جو ڦڙو (plant) · pl gładysz (plant) · xal цасн цецг (plant) · eo neĝborulo (plant) · sh visibaba (plant) · az qargülü (plant) · nn snøklokke (plant) · ba умырзая (plant) · cy cloch maban (plant) · lad kampanilya de inyervo (plant) · cs sněženka (plant) · rmq campanilla de invierno (plant) · lb Schnéikläckelchen (plant) · ro ghiocel (plant) · es campanilla de febrero (plant) · es campanilla de invierno (plant) · mk кокиче (plant) · fr perce-neige (plant) · la galanthus (plant) · fi lumikello (plant) · ca lliri de neu (plant) · nl sneeuwklokje (plant) · nb snøklokke (plant) · fa گل برفی (plant) · pl przebiśnieg (plant) · tr kardelen (plant) · cmn 雪花蓮 /雪花莲 (plant) · az xədicəgülü (plant) · it bucaneve (plant) · gsw Schneeglöggli (plant) · ga plúirín sneachta (plant) · ka თეთრყვავილა (plant) · pl śniegunka (plant) · hu hóvirág (plant) · vo galant (plant) · pl śnieżyczka (plant) · ary قطرة الثلج (plant) · sk snežienka (plant) · cy eirlys (plant) · ab асықәа (plant) · hy ձնծաղիկ (plant) · kbd ажэгъуэмэ (plant) · os дзӕкъолон (plant) · da vintergæk (plant) · de Schneeglöckchen (plant) · et lumikelluke (plant) · pl śnieżyczka przebiśnieg (plant) · pt galanto (plant) · cy lili wen fach (plant) · bg кокиче (plant) · ko 설강화 (plant) · os малусӕг (plant) · eo galanto (plant) · el λευκόιο (plant) · cy blodyn yr eira (plant) · sv snödroppe (plant) · sh висибаба (plant) · es flor de nieve (plant) · ru подсне́жник (plant)