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Definition of Snow-in-summer

1. Noun. Annual spurge of western United States having showy white-bracted flower clusters and very poisonous milk.

2. Noun. Chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Snow-in-summer

snoutlike snouts snouty snow snow-apple snow-apples snow-bird snow-blind snow-blinded snow-broth

snow-capped snow-clad snow-covered snow-flake snow-flakes snow-in-summer (current term) snow-leopard snow-mageddon snow-on-the-mountain snow-skiing

snow-white snow angel snow angels snow apple snow apples snow bird snow blindness snow blower snow bunnies snow bunny

Literary usage of Snow-in-summer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Glacial Nightmare and the Flood: A Second Appeal to Common Sense from by Henry Hoyle Howorth (1893)
"... of each hemisphere is due to greatly increased radiation—Croll's criticism of the theory—Croll's own theory— Greater accumulation of snow in summer, ..."

2. The Popular Science Monthly (1874)
"... and, the snow in summer melting from the surface as far as the snow-line, the edges of the layers are found passing transversely across the glacier. ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1874)
"... and, the snow in summer melting from the surface as far as the snow-line, the edges of the layers are found passing transversely across the glacier. ..."

4. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1892)
"The melting of snow in summer fills the mountain streams with water, and these, running westward from this range, and those running eastward from the Coast ..."

5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1879)
"We may be quite sure, then, that beyond the mountain barrier of the Antarctic continent there are either lowlands and plateaux free from snow in summer, ..."

6. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"... in summer (is) a wise As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, they prepare their meat in Ihe summer; the shouting for Ihy summer fruits...is as the ..."

7. Modern Geography for High Schools by Rollin D. Salisbury, Harlan Harland Barrows, Walter Sheldon Tower (1913)
"In summer, however, this same region, being without snow or ice, becomes very much warmer than Greenland. Arctic lands free from snow in summer have great ..."

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