| 单词 |
mountain snow |
| 释义 |
mountain snow 1. Snow lying white on the mountains.
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 750 As mountain snow melts with the midday sonne. 1602― Ham. iv. v. 35 White his Shrow'd as the Mountaine Snow. 1845G. Murray Islaford 16 Her brow was like a wreath of mountain-snow. 2. (See quot.)
1878Abney Photogr. (1881) 154 Barium sulphate, known as ‘Mountain snow’. 3. U.S. The plant Euphorbia marginata.
1889‘C. E. Craddock’ Despot of Broomsedge Cove ix. 159 He mechanically noted..how the blooming ‘Mountain snow’ brushed his mare's fine coat. 1897–8Britton & Brown Amer. Flora. 1913Britton & Brown Illustr. Flora Northern U.S. (ed. 2) II. 469 Euphorbia marginata... In dry soil, Minnesota to Colorado, south to Texas. Introduced into waste places in the Central and Atlantic States. Snow-on-the-mountain... Mountain-snow. |

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