snowcap
IPA: snˈoʊkæp
noun
- A layer of snow covering a mountain top.
- A small hummingbird, Microchera albocoronata, which is a resident breeder in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and western Panama.
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Examples of "snowcap" in Sentences
- The discrepancy is probably the thickness of the snowcap.
- The Cybermen take over the Snowcap space tracking base in Antarctica.
- There is a permanent snowcap on this peak and on the nearby mountains.
- He wears a snowcap on his head similar to a skater, though only for looks.
- Of course, a decreased snowcap is an another indication of Global Warming.
- I can imagine that the snowcap thickness probably varies from year to year.
- I've just found your blog while I was hunting for what a "snowcap mushroom" was..
- Thanks to global warming and deforestation, the millennial snowcap that was said to cover King Solomon's tomb is receding.
- In 2004 scientists from the University of Bangor made headlines with the prediction that Snowdon might lose its snowcap altogether by 2020.
- God dwells in the hearts of those who love Him and fills every crevice just as the water melting from a snowcap fills the crevices of a mountain.
- Five-and-one-half inches of snowcap knee peek between sky brilliance of hem and sock as she turns her sensible black heel away from Dante's statue.
- The commentator also lambasted the U Washington for splitting the difference and now advocating that the snowcap was 30%- the commentator said this was politics, not science.
- The guy was claiming that a Seattle professor had been fired from his job, because he had pointed out that the snowcap was only 15% reduced in the Cascades, instead of the regularly touted 50%.
- The mountain's serene, unchanging image - unchanging except for the snowcap that comes and goes with the seasons - graces everything from public bath house walls to postage stamps to currency and more!