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snow-wreath|ˈsnəʊriːθ|
[f. snow n.1]
1. A heap of snow blown together by the wind; a snowdrift.
1818Scott Hrt. Midl. viii, The tenants..were not actually turned out of doors among the snow-wreaths. 1854J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) II. ix. 139 The outer ranks melted like snow-wreaths on the river's brink. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets xi. 357 The oxen came Down from the mountain through the snow-wreaths deep.
2. As a plant-name (see quot.).
1901Bailey & Miller Cycl. Amer. Horticult. III. 1079 [Neviusia] Alabamensis, Gray. Snow Wreath. |