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Definition of Snow-on-the-mountain
1. Noun. Annual spurge of western United States having showy white-bracted flower clusters and very poisonous milk.
Group relationships: Euphorbia, Genus Euphorbia
Generic synonyms: Spurge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snow-on-the-mountain
Literary usage of Snow-on-the-mountain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1856)
"Yule made this attempt there was a great deal of snow on the mountain, and he
was unable to reach the summit of the ridge ; but it appeared to him that at a ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... probably a greater amount than eould be furnished by the sudden melting of
all the winter's snow on the mountain. It formed a channel 2 mile« broad, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"... furnished by the sudden melting of all the winter's snow on the mountain.
It formed a channel 2 miles broad, and in some placet thirty-four feet deep, ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... probably a greater amount than could be furnished by the sudden melting of
all the winter's snow on the mountain. It formed a channel Î miles broad, ..."
5. Friends' Review: A Religious, Literary and Miscellaneous Journal edited by Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads (1849)
"... saw the sunshine in all its bright rays embrace the snow on the mountain-top
in all its whiteness : it was a pretty union—so full of harmony- beautiful. ..."
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