snowdrop

Etymology


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Noun

 * 1) Any of the 20 species of the genus  of the, 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.
 * 2) * 1722,, Kensington Garden, London: Printed for J[acob] Tonson, in the Strand, 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,  16074759 , page 166:
 * A flower that first in this sweet garden smiled, / To virgins sacred, and the Snow-drop styled.
 * 1) * 1865, [pseudonym; Marie Louise de la Ramée], “White Ladies”, in Strathmore: A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, London: Chapman and Hall, 193,,  4557613 ; republished as Strathmore: A Romance. [...] In Two Volumes (Collection of British Authors; 1169), volume I, Tauchnitz edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1871,  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.
 * White Ladies did not mean snowdrops, by their pretty old English name, ghosts in white cere-clothes, or belles in white tarlatan.

Derived terms

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Translations

 * Abkhaz: асықәа
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: xədicəgülü, qargülü
 * Bashkir: умырзая
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: lliri de neu
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: neĝborulo,
 * Estonian: lumikelluke
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: თეთრყვავილა
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Schneeglöggli
 * Greek: λευκόιο
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: plúirín sneachta
 * Italian: bucaneve
 * Kabardian:
 * Kalmyk: цасн цецг
 * Korean: 설강화(雪降花)
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: кокиче
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: snøklokke
 * Nynorsk: snøklokke
 * Ossetian: малусӕг, дзӕкъолон
 * Persian: گل برفی
 * Polish:, , śnieżyczka przebiśnieg
 * Portuguese: galanto
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: висибаба
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: snežienka
 * Spanish: campanilla de febrero, campanilla de invierno, flor de nieve
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: galant
 * Welsh:, cloch maban, eirlys,

Verb

 * 1)  To steal clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline.