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snowdrops

snowdrops is the plural of snowdrop.

snowdrops is the third-person singular simple present indicative of snowdrop.

Meaning of snowdrop

Noun

snowdrop (plural snowdrops)

  1. Any of the 20 species of the genus Galanthus of the Amaryllidaceae, bulbous flowering plants, bearing a solitary, pendulous, white, bell-shaped flower that appears, depending on species, between autumn and late winter or early spring, all native to temperate Eurasia.
    • A flower that first in this sweet garden smiled, / To virgins sacred, and the Snow-drop styled.1722, Thomas Tickell, Kensington Garden, London: Printed for J[acob] Tonson, in the Strand, OCLC 270894685; republished in The Poems of Garth, and Tickell (The British Poets. Including Translations....

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Noun capitalized: Snowdrops

Snowdrops

  1. (plural) plural of Snowdrop

Questions about snowdrops

What is snowdrops the plural of?
Snowdrops is the plural of snowdrop.
What part of speech is snowdrops?
Snowdrops is a noun.

Words near snowdrops in the dictionary

  1. snowdrop windflowers
  2. snowdropped
  3. snowdropper
  4. snowdroppers
  5. snowdropping
  6. snowdrops
  7. Snowe
  8. snowed
  9. snowed down
  10. snowed in
  11. snowed out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snowdrops (page history and authors); Snowdrops (page history and authors); snowdrop (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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