Snowdrop

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim Alternative letter-case form of Snowdrop (“a Royal Air Force police officer”).
3. fiil To steal clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline.

   “MS: There was a lot of snowdropping in those days? / SL: Oh, I've never actually stooped to snowdropping; I used to go into shops. Boosting, man, boosting. But you learn how to survive.”

4. isim A Royal Air Force police officer.

   “For quotations using this term, see Citations:Snowdrop.”