adjective
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Marked by snow, characterized by snow.
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snowy day
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Covered with snow, snow-covered, besnowed.
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snowy hillside
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Snow-white in color, white as snow.
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noun
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A large, white, nomadic Arctic owl, Bubo scandiacus.
Examples of snowy in a Sentence
They stepped into the snowy yard outside the castle.
He was dressed for the cold, snowy night.
The Snowy river has the greater part of its course in New South Wales, but its mouth and the last 120 m.
A snowy night closed upon the world, and in the morning one could scarcely recognize a feature of the landscape.
The climate is severe, as the town is much exposed to cold winds blowing from the snowy Alps.
The hills were a profusion of snowy dogwood and pink plumb and cherry blossoms.
It was too snowy to move quietly through the forest.
The golden eagle, bald-headed eagle, osprey and a large variety of hawks are common in Canada, as are the snowy owl, the horned owl and others inhabiting northern climates.
When the waters evaporate in the summer they leave a clay bed of remarkable hardness, which is sometimes encrusted with saline matter of a snowy whiteness and dazzles the eyes of the traveller.
Vegetation ascends on the drier and less snowy mountain slopes of Tibet to above 18,00o ft.
Mount Morrison (14,270 ft.), which the Japanese re-named Niitaka-yama (New High Mountain), stands first, and Mount Sylvia (12,480 ft.), to which they give the name of Setzu-zan (Snowy Mountain), comes second.
The coast scenery, with its islands and snowy mountains, is wild and beautiful.
From the north this range, which is only partly explored, presents a somewhat regular series of snowy crests.
The snowy heron is a rare plume bird seen occasionally along the coast.
Taking the average elevation of the central axial line of snowy peaks as 19,000 ft., the average height of the passes is not more than 10,000 owing to this process of cutting down by erosion and gradual encroachment into the northern basin.
Her white hair and snowy skin glowed in the dim chamber.
Within a hundred miles of the mountains there is constantly in view, in clear weather, the beautiful line of snowy peaks along the western horizon.
The Ill valley is bounded south by the snowy chain of the Rhatikon (highest point, the Scesaplana, 9741 ft., a famous view-point), and of the Silvretta (highest point, Gross Piz Buin, 1 0,880 ft.), both dividing Vorarlberg from Switzerland; slightly to the north-east of Piz Buin is the Dreilanderspitze (10,539 ft.), where the Vorarlberg, Tirolese and Swiss frontiers unite.
This knot of very lofty mountains, with Mount Fairweather and some others, all snowy and glacierclad for almost their whole height, are quite isolated from the highest points of the Rocky Mountains proper, which are 1000 m.
In eastern Canada Ungava and Labrador are very chill and inhospitable, owing largely to the iceberg-laden current sweeping down the coast from Davis Strait, bringing fogs and long snowy winters and a temperature for the year much below the freezing-point.
Try these tips to keep your boots snowy white.
On the Swiss Alps it is one of the most prevalent and striking of the forest trees, its dark evergreen foliage often standing out in strong contrast to the snowy ridges and glaciers beyond.
Glaciers on the outer slopes of the Himalaya descend much lower than is commonly the case in Tibet, or in the most elevated valleys near the snowy range.
At one locality in north-western Ladakh there is a continuous mass of snow and ice extending across a snowy ridge, measuring 64 m.
Cultivation hardly extends above 7000 ft., except in the valleys behind the great snowy peaks, where a few fields of buckwheat and Tibetan barley are sown up to 11,000 or 12,000 ft.
The Alaskan Range, connecting with the Nutzotin and Skolai branches of the St Elias Range, lies a little farther inland; it is splendidly marked by many snowy peaks, including Mt.
The climate varies from the snowy regions of the Himalayas to the tropical vapour-bath of the delta and the burning winds of Behar.
During the wet season the valleys often contain ephemeral lakes, whose waters on evaporating leave a playa, or mud flat, often covered with an alkaline encrustation of snowy whiteness.
The portal opened, and she bounded through it, running to the brightest portal and through it to emerge on the snowy park behind the castle.
Looking south, you see the snowy peaks of a distant mountain.
The Rev Peter Allen, a retired vicar, joined the team in the snowy weather in January this year.
For three years he wandered about trying in vain to recover his lost possessions; at last, in 5504, he gathered some troops, and crossing the snowy Hindu Kush besieged and captured the strong city of Kabul.
The formation of dense banks of cloud in the afternoon, when the up wind is strongest, along the southern face of the snowy ranges of the Himalaya, is a regular daily phenomenon during the hotter months of the year, and heavy rain, accompanied by electrical discharges, is the frequent result of such condensation.
Its moraines, though mostly obscured by vegetation and weathering, may still be traced; while on the snowy peaks at the headwaters of the Merced a considerable number of small glaciers, once tributary to the main Yosemite glacier, still exist.
Early in the morning, while all things are crisp with frost, men come with fishing-reels and slender lunch, and let down their fine lines through the snowy field to take pickerel and perch; wild men, who instinctively follow other fashions and trust other authorities than their townsmen, and by their goings and comings stitch towns together in parts where else they would be ripped.
He remembered only the dull gray weather now rainy and now snowy, internal physical distress, and pains in his feet and side.
The snowy white scree is made from quartzite rock.
There were several stunning Roseate Spoonbills, White Ibis, Great, Little Blue and Snowy Egrets, also.
And snowshoe hares have pure white fur, which allows them to blend into their snowy environment without being seen.
Mia 's Story Mia lives with her family in a small South American village beneath the snowy mountains.
There is also an opportunity to view the snowy summit, weather dependant.
Jack London never led huskies into a snowy wilderness.
Mandy peered up the snowy slope to the ridge.
Well Summer is almost here and after the cold and wet and sometimes snowy winter, here 's hoping Summer is a good one.
In particularly snowy areas drivers have two options; either use winter tires or fit snow chains around the car 's summer tires.
Our winters are cold and snowy, and great for skiing, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing.
Overseen by a snowy white owl that roosts in a little hole in the wall, this dark dining room has an occult air.
A snowy installation during the day gives way to a star spangled performance during the evening.
Going from snowy Alaska to sunny Hawaii on the same trip made for an odd juxtaposition during the family's vacation.
Hunting boots keep your feet warm and allow you to walk through wet, snowy areas without getting soaking wet.