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snow pellets
Word Origin
plural noun
1.
precipitation, usually of brief duration, consisting of crisp, white, opaque ice particles, round or conical in shape and about two to five millimeters in diameter.
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Also called
graupel
,
soft hail
,
tapioca snow
.
Origin of
snow pellets
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1940-1945
First recorded in
1940-45
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2017.
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