snowflake

Speech parts

1. snowflake - Noun

2. snowflake - Verb

Meaning

A flake, or small filmy mass, of snow.

See Snowbird, 1.

A name given to several bulbous plants of the genus Leucoium (L. vernum, aestivum, etc.) resembling the snowdrop, but having all the perianth leaves of equal size.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

flake snowbird snow bunting Plectrophenax nivalis fleck frost blizzard crystal glacier mouse lamina coward mogul junco ice
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Antonyms

hill knight hector conqueror daredevil chevalier
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Hypernyms

crystal bunting

Phrases with the word

special little snowflake

Anagrams

flowsnake

Examples

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. Henry David Thoreau

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? Jeanette Winterson

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. Stanisław Jerzy Lec

The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche. Jon Ronson

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. Zen Proverb

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads its innocence. Darkovan Proverb

Close letter words and terms

snowfighter snowfighting snowfinch snowflake eel snowflake generation snowflake moray