niveous

Definitions


[ˈnɪvɪəs], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- snowy or resembling snow
(e.g: all seemed to shimmer and slip away into a niveous haze, as if a fog was rising from some realm beneath the floor)


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Origin:
early 17th century: from Latin niveus (from nix, niv- ‘snow’) + -ous




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