snow flower (snoflou"er)

1. A variant name of the snowdrop, Galanthus.-2. Same as fringe - tree.-3. A shrub, Deutzia gracilis. See Deutzia. Miller, Dict. Eng. Names of Plants. snow-fly (snō'fli), n. 1. A perlid insect or kind of stone-fly which appears on the snow, as Perla niricola of Fitch. The common snow-fly of New York is Capnia pygmæa, which is black with gray hairs. IMG:content-1424.jpg:[blocks in formation] snow in early spring, as C. nivoriundus. -2. Same as snow-fly, 3. snow-goggle (snō'gog"l), n. Same as snow - eyes. Mr. Murdock, of the Point Barrow Station, found an Eskimo snow - goggle beneath more than twenty feet of frozen gravel. A. R. Wallace, Nineteenth Century, XXII. 672.