summer snowflake
- noun
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campanilla de verano
- The summer snowflake blooms in late spring, filling the garden with clusters of delicate white flowers.
Examples
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She planted several summer snowflakes along the walkway for their ornamental appeal.
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Unlike its relative the snowdrop, the summer snowflake flowers later and grows taller.
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The summer snowflake blooms beautifully in my garden.
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A summer snowflake adds charm to any landscape.
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She planted several summer snowflakes along the walkway for their ornamental appeal.
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The summer snowflake blooms in late spring, filling the garden with clusters of delicate white flowers.
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A summer snowflake adds charm to any landscape with its star-shaped white flowers.
Synonyms
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A small plant with narrow leaves and white flowers that look like stars
A small plant with narrow grass-like leaves and white star-shaped flowers with a green stripe
A small plant with grasslike leaves and white star-shaped flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
summer + snowflake
The compound combines a clear seasonal modifier 'summer' with 'snowflake', which evokes a small white, flake-like object; a B1 learner who knows both words can plausibly infer a summer-blooming plant with white, snowflake-like flowers. This adjective–noun composition follows transparent, productive English compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically interpretable, so the overall meaning is directly derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Summer snowflake is named for the plant's many small, white, star-shaped flowers that appear in late spring and look like tiny snow on the ground. Because the blooms come in warm months, the name joins summer and snowflake and today refers to 'a small white-flowering plant'.