snowdrop

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈsnəʊ.dɹɒp/    美 /ˈsnoʊ.dɹɑp/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Snowdrop (“a Royal Air Force police officer”). alt-of
动词 v.
  1. To steal clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline. Australia,ambitransitive,slang
    — 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.

词形变化

snowdrops plural snowdrops present,singular,third-person snowdropping participle,present snowdropped participle,past snowdropped past

词汇关系

衍生词
Caucasian snowdrop Crimean snowdrop giant snowdrop snowdrop anemone snowdrop tree snowdrop windflower yellow snowdrop Erythronium spp.)
相关词
galanthophile

词源

词源 1
From snow + drop.
词源 2
From snow + drop.
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