noun
1. chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers
• Syn: ↑love-in-a-mist, ↑Cerastium tomentosum
• Hypernyms: ↑mouse-ear chickweed, ↑mouse eared chickweed, ↑mouse ear, ↑clammy chickweed, ↑chickweed
2. annual spurge of western United States having showy white-bracted flower clusters and very poisonous milk
• Syn: ↑snow-on-the-mountain, ↑ghost weed, ↑Euphorbia marginata
• Hypernyms: ↑spurge
• Member Holonyms: ↑Euphorbia, ↑genus Euphorbia
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\\| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷\ noun also snow-in-harvest \\| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷\ : any of several plants blossoming at harvestime: as
a. : a mouse-ear chickweed (Cerastium tomentosum) with grayish tomentose foliage and rather large white flowers that is sometimes used as a low border about ornamental plantings
b. : a virgin's bower (Clematis viorna) of the eastern United States sometimes cultivated for its purplish flowers and showy plumose white archenes
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/snoh"in sum"euhr/, n.
a mat-forming garden plant, Cerastium tomentosum, of the pink family, native to Italy, having white flowers and numerous narrow, white, woolly leaves in large patches, growing in sand.
[1885-90]
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snow-in-summˈer noun
A white-flowered, mat-forming garden mouse-ear chickweed, Cerastium tomentosum or biebersteinii
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Main Entry: ↑snow
Useful english dictionary. 2012.