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SNOWDROP
Etymology
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.
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.
Source: Wiktionary
Snow"drop`, n. (Bot.)
Definition: A bulbous plant (Galanthus nivalis) bearing white flowers, which often appear while the snow is on the ground. It is cultivated in gardens for its beauty. Snowdrop tree. See Silver-bell tree, under Silver, a.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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