snow crystal

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a crystal of ice sufficiently heavy to fall from the atmosphere.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

Compare snowflake.

First recorded in 1865–70

Not quite, but at one point the temperature registered 29 below zero, with 21 inches of snow.
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Some of the video was crystal clear, but in other footage the figures were just fuzzy shadows in black and white.
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But mostly they just walked, their faces somber, their hands shaking as the snow began to fall.
Justice League Vigil for Slain NYPD Officers Asks Whose Life Matters|Olivia Nuzzi|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There was snow on the ground when I made my last trip to see Sheffield.
I Was Gang Raped at a UVA Frat 30 Years Ago, and No One Did Anything|Liz Seccuro|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST

“I think there's too much snow in Finland at the present time,” he announces.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To advance in such circumstances was out of the question, he therefore set about building a miniature hut of snow.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
By his commandment he maketh the snow to fall apace, and sendeth forth swiftly the lightnings of his judgment.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
At the foot of the pass, the valley widened a little, though still with steep, snow-capped cliffs crowding it on either side.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
I would not just then have traded off that steamboat for several square miles of snow-capped sublimity.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
She may be as chaste as unsunned snow, she is certainly as cold: but for warm, inspiring virtue!
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter