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snowburns

snowburns is the plural of snowburn.

Meaning of snowburn

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

Questions about snowburns

What is snowburns the plural of?
Snowburns is the plural of snowburn.

Words near snowburns in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snowburns (page history and authors); snowburn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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