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Definition of Snowcap
1. Noun. A covering of snow (as on a mountain peak).
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
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Snowcap
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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