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/ˈsnəʊ.dɹɒp/ · noun
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..
A flower that first in this sweet garden smiled, / To virgins sacred, and the Snow-drop styled.
White Ladies did not mean snowdrops, by their pretty old English name, ghosts in white cere-clothes, or belles in white tarlatan.
Tufts of primroses grew under the still leafless trees; the hepatica had succeeded the snowdrop.
[I]t was considered unlucky to decorate a room with cut snowdrops. The name death's flower relates to an old belief that a solitary snowdrop indicates impending death, with suggestions that it was inauspicious to bring snowdrops indoors.
MS: There was a lot of snowdropping in those days? / SL: Oh, I've never actually stooped to snowdropping; I used to go into shops. Boosting, man, boosting. But you learn how to survive.
‘Snowdropping’ is the business of some poor sods who, often from laundry drying on a clothes line, pinch items of ladies’ underwear, take them away and sniff them.
It'll be like snowdropping clothes from a clothesline. We'll snowdrop a baby.
Use snowdrop when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Snowdrop means 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..
Common synonyms include wood anemone, anemone quinquefolia.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A flower that first in this sweet garden smiled, / To virgins sacred, and the Snow-drop styled.
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