snowdrop

== English == === Etymology === From snow +‎ drop. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsnəʊ.dɹɒp/ (General American) enPR: snōʹdräp, IPA(key): /ˈsnoʊ.dɹɑp/ Hyphenation: snow‧drop === Noun === snowdrop (plural snowdrops) Any of the 20 species of the genus Galanthus of the Amaryllidaceae, bulbous flowering plants, bearing a solitary, pendulous, white, bell-shaped flower that appears, depending on species, between autumn and late winter or early spring, all native to temperate Eurasia. 1722, Thomas Tickell, Kensington Garden, London: Printed for J[acob] Tonson, in the Strand, OCLC 270894685; republished in The Poems of Garth, and Tickell (The British Poets. Including Translations. In One Hundred Volumes; XXVII), Chiswick, Middlesex: From the press of C[harles] Whittingham, College House, 1822, OCLC 16074759, page 166: A flower that first in this sweet garden smiled, / To virgins sacred, and the Snow-drop styled. 1865, Ouida [pseudonym; Marie Louise de la Ramée], “White Ladies”, in Strathmore: A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, OCLC 4557613; republished as Strathmore: A Romance. [...] In Two Volumes (Collection of British Authors; 1169), volume I, Tauchnitz edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1871, OCLC 798495291, page 9: White Ladies did not mean snowdrops, by their pretty old English name, ghosts in white cere-clothes, or belles in white tarlatan. Alternative letter-case form of Snowdrop (“a Royal Air Force police officer”). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== galanthophile === Verb === snowdrop (third-person singular simple present snowdrops, present participle snowdropping, simple past and past participle snowdropped) (Australia, slang, ambitransitive) To steal clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline. ==== Derived terms ==== === References === snowdrop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Category:Galanthus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons Galanthus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies