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Webster 1913 Edition


Snowflake

Snow′flakeˊ

,
Noun.
1.
A flake, or small filmy mass, of snow.
2.
(Zool.)
See
Snowbird
, 1.
3.
(Bot.)
A name given to several bulbous plants of the genus
Leucoium
(
Leucoium vernum
,
Leucoium aestivum
, etc.) resembling the snowdrop, but having all the perianth leaves of equal size.

Definition 2024


snowflake

snowflake

See also: snow-flake

English

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

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Noun

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, Plectrophenax nivalis.[1]
  4. (slang, usually sarcastic) A person who is unique and special (referring to the idea that no two snowflakes are identical in structure).
    Well, aren't you a special snowflake?
  5. (slang, usually derogative) A Caucasian person.

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Verb

snowflake (third-person singular simple present snowflakes, present participle snowflaking, simple past and past participle snowflaked)

  1. (computing, databases) To arrange (data) into a snowflake schema.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 snowflake” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]