snowflake

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[edit] English

A snowflake (crystal of frozen water)
A snowflake (flower)

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snow + flake[1]

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Singular
snowflake

Plural
snowflakes

snowflake (plural snowflakes)

  1. A crystal of snow, having approximate hexagonal symmetry.[1]
  2. Any of several bulbous European plants, of the genus Leucojum, having white flowers.[1]
  3. The snow bunting.[1]

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  • Notes:
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5snowflake” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]