The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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This spring, Lady Bamford, who is the founder of Daylesford Organic, a popular British lifestyle brand, hosted various lunches with themes inspired by plants grown on the estate, like snowdrops and tulips.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
Birdsong, snowdrops, blossom and midge bites - these are not things you associate with November in the north of England.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2022
But the experience of that peculiar solitude, so filled with company, always feels as fresh as the sight of those brave snowdrops reaching for the sun.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2022
His company ProViotics uses a strain of bacteria extracted from snowdrops in its health supplements which are sold around the world.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2021
On a bank below the lawns, crocuses were planted, golden, pink, and mauve, but by this time they would be past their best, dropping and fading, like the pallid snowdrops.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
