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snowburn

snowburn noun: a form of sunburn caused by exposure to the sun's rays reflecting off of snow (as well as reaching the skin directly from the sun).

Noun

snowburn (countable and uncountable, plural snowburns)

  1. A form of sunburn caused by exposure to the sun's rays reflecting off of snow (as well as reaching the skin directly from the sun).
    • Snowburn, especially in the mountains and on glaciers, is much more severe than waterburn as from lakes, and waterburn, again, is severer than ordinary sunburn. […]1913, Edinburgh Medical Journal, volume 11, page 168
    • It is interesting to note that the affected areas in face and ears were the same regions well known to suffer from the reflected light in snowburn and waterburn. He had suffered previously from rosacea and the front of his face was still seborrheic, but with no keratosis, only freckling from light...1913, New York Journal of Homœopathy, volume 41, page 32

Forms of snowburn

pluralsnowburns

Origin of snowburn

snow + burn.

Questions about snowburn

What does snowburn mean?
Snowburn means a form of sunburn caused by exposure to the sun's rays reflecting off of snow (as well as reaching the skin directly from the sun).
What part of speech is snowburn?
Snowburn is a noun.
What is the plural of snowburn?
The plural of snowburn is snowburns.

Words near snowburn in the dictionary

  1. snowbridges
  2. snowbrush
  3. snowbrushes
  4. snowbunnies
  5. snowbunny
  6. snowburn
  7. snowburns
  8. snowbush
  9. snowbushes
  10. snowcap
  11. snowcapped

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