snowdrop

English

Snowdrops in winter

Etymology

From snow +‎ drop.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈsnəʊ.drɒp/, X-SAMPA: /"sn@U.dr\Qp/
• (US) enPR: snōʹdräp, IPA: /ˈsnoʊ.drɑp/, X-SAMPA: /"snoU.dr\Ap/

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Noun

snowdrop (plural snowdrops)

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 at the end of winter.

Derived terms

• snowdrop anemone
• Snowdrop Campaign on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Snowdrop Campaign
• snowdrop tree
• snowdrop windflower

Translations

plant

• Armenian: ձնծաղիկ (hy) (jnçaġik) 
• Azeri: xədicəgülü (az), qargülü (az)
• Catalan: lliri de neu (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雪花蓮 (cmn) (xuě.huā.lián)

• Czech: sněženka (cs) f
• Danish: vintergæk (da) c
• Dutch: sneeuwklokje (nl) n
• Esperanto: neĝborulo (eo)
• French: perce-neige (fr) m
• Georgian: ენძელა (ka) (endzela) 
• German: Schneeglöckchen (de) n
• Hungarian: hóvirág (hu)
• Irish: plúirín sneachta (ga) m
• Italian: bucaneve (it) m

• Korean: 설강화 (ko) (雪降花, seol.gang.hwa)
• Luxembourgish: Schnéikläckelchen (lb) f
• Macedonian: кокиче (mk) (kókiče) n
• Polish: śnieżyczka przebiśnieg (pl) m
• Romanian: ghiocel (ro) m
• Russian: подснежник (ru) (podsnéžnik) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: висибаба (sh) f

  Roman: visibaba (sh) f

• Spanish: campanilla de febrero f, flor de nieve f
• Swedish: snödroppe (sv)
• Turkish: kardelen (tr)
• Volapük: galant (vo)
• Welsh: blodyn yr eira (cy) m, cloch maban (cy) f, eirlys (cy) m, lili wen fach (cy) f

Verb

snowdrop (third-person singular simple present snowdrops, present participle snowdropping, simple past and past participle snowdropped)

1. (Australia, slang) To steal clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline.
2. (United Nations) To drop food aid across a wide area from an aircraft.
3. (sexual slang) to transfer semen from mouth to mouth while kissing.

Synonyms

• (sexual slang): snowball

See also

• Snowdrop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Snowdrop on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons
• Galanthus on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Galanthus