Definition of Snowcap

1. Noun. A covering of snow (as on a mountain peak).

Generic synonyms: Cover, Covering, Natural Covering

Definition of Snowcap

1. n. A very small humming bird (Microchæra albocoronata) native of New Grenada.

Definition of Snowcap

1. Noun. A layer of snow covering a mountain top. ¹

2. Noun. A small hummingbird, ''Microchera albocoronata'', which is a resident breeder in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and western Panama. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Snowcap

1. a covering of snow [n -S]

Medical Definition of Snowcap

1. A very small humming bird (Microchaera albocoronata) native of new Grenada. The feathers of the top of the head are white and snining, the body blue black with a purple and bronzy luster. The name is applied also to Microchaera parvirostris of Central America, which is similar in colour. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Snowcap

snowboard cross
snowboardcross
snowboarded
snowboarder
snowboarders
snowboarding
snowboardings
snowboards
snowboot
snowboots
snowbound
snowbrush
snowbrushes
snowbush
snowbushes
snowcap (current term)
snowcapped
snowcaps
snowcapt
snowcat
snowcats
snowclone
snowclones
snowcock
snowcocks
snowcone
snowcones
snowcovered
snowcross
snowdog

Literary usage of Snowcap

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

1. Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles (1885)
"... it he told us he saw the snowcap on the pole of Mars. He had another smaller telescope, made by himself, and had a spectroscope in process of making. ..."

2. Challenge and Response: Anticipating U. S. Military Security Concern by Karl P. Magyar (1994)
"... cocaine trafficking in the Andean Ridge [the Upper Huallaga Valley in Peru and the Chapare region in Bolivia] under a program called Operation snowcap. ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"It rises on the southwest slopes of the Schneekoppe or snowcap, one of the Riesengebirge, between Bohemia and Silesia. From this point it flows nearly dufe ..."

4. Science and Hebrew Tradition by Thomas Henry Huxley (1897)
"This implies a perennial snowcap of great extent on Hermon ; therefore, a vastly greater supply of water to the sources of the Jordan which rise on ..."

5. Science and Hebrew tradition by Thomas Henry Huxley (1896)
"This implies a perennial snowcap of great extent on Hermon; therefore, a vastly greater supply of water to the sources of the Jordan which rise on its ..."

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