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Meanings of snowflake in English

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Heraldic figure.

        Related terms
        Portuguese
        flocodeneve
        Catalan
        floc
        Spanish
        copo de nieve

        A crystal of snow.

              flocodeneve
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              Examples for "snow crystal"
              Examples for "snow crystal"
              1
              Aerosols spray frozen breath as snow crystals are scrawled on shop windows.
              The Irish Times
              2
              It was just a flurry of snow crystals hitting the tent all night long.
              Climbing Magazine
              3
              On either side spread the blanket of soft snow crystals.
              The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke
              4
              He whirled away, in a sparkling veil of flung snow crystals, before the women appeared.
              The Three Black Pennys: A Novel
              5
              Plasma surged in, playing over the complex, delicate systems like a blowtorch over snow crystals.
              The Reality Dysfunction

              White Arctic bunting.

                    Usage of snowflake in English
                    1
                    She said it was the most beautiful snowflake she could ever imagine.
                    Tell the Wolves I’m Home
                    2
                    What are the chances a similar snowflake has fallen in Earth's history?
                    Wired
                    3
                    The results are likely to be as unique as, well, a snowflake.
                    Wired
                    4
                    Does she want to be a special snowflake or an ordinary person?
                    Foxglove Summer
                    5
                    The weather is still threatening, and now and then a snowflake falls.
                    Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian
                    6
                    See if snowflake science is flakey Do snowflakes always have six branches?
                    Wired
                    7
                    It wasn't a solid sphere, snowflake geometries fluctuated behind the overpowering glare.
                    The Naked God
                    8
                    Deep Winter shrank to a single tiny snowflake glimmer on the desk.
                    Ghosts of Onyx
                    9
                    The snow drifted, and he mused at the individuality of each snowflake.
                    Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
                    10
                    White as a snowflake, yet with blazing eyes, Angela turned upon him.
                    The Master-Christian
                    11
                    Kate bowed, patting Tiger's big head with her snowflake of a hand.
                    Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters: A Novel
                    12
                    It looked like a sort of rounded black snowflake with eight-fold symmetry.
                    Surface detail
                    13
                    Even if it doesn't have a snowflake's chance in hell of succeeding!
                    Torch of Freedom
                    14
                    He wondered if any of the younger children knew each snowflake was different.
                    Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
                    15
                    It was a tiny snowflake, the first snowflake, the herald of the night.
                    The First Men in the Moon
                    16
                    His companions were the frost, the fluttering snowflake, the stinging hail.
                    Halleck's New English Literature
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                    Catalan
                    floc
                    Snowflake through the time
                    Snowflake across language varieties
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