dewdrop
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- noun
- /ˈduːdrɒp/
:
gota de rocío
- In the early morning, tiny dewdrops adorned the petals of the flowers.
- dewdrops covering the grass
Examples
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It was a child's simple prayer: sincere, unadorned, pure as a baby dewdrop.
Fiction book (1994) -
As the Ashashi Princess held her hands, the dying Murasaki faded away "like a dewdrop from the grass."
Academic text (1992) -
But here they could see a dewdrop form in broad daylight.
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The dewdrops fell on morning grass.
Fiction book (1997) -
The grass raises dewdrops to the sun.
Fiction book (1998) -
Dewdrops glittered on the windows of the jeep.
Fiction book (1996) -
Red would bloom on his shirt front, a bouquet of blood roses clutched to his chest, pearl studs glistening among them like dewdrops.
Fiction book (1998) -
The park looked beautiful, with dewdrops sparkling on the grass after the night rain.
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She noticed the dewdrops on the leaves as she walked through the cool morning air.
Synonyms
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A small round piece of water that hangs on leaves after rain
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Etymology
Dewdrop comes from the two simple words dew ('wetness that forms on plants in the early morning') and drop ('a small round bit of water'). So a dewdrop is literally a 'small drop of morning wetness', which is why we use it for the tiny beads of water on grass and flowers.