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snowball
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[ noun ] (botany) plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers; grows in sandy arid regions
Synonyms Used in print (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)In the center of any open space remaining our grandfathers had planted syringa and sweet_shrub , snowball , rose-of-Sharon and balm-of-Gilead . Other flowers we might gather as we pleased : myrtle and white_violets from beneath the lilacs ; the lilacs themselves , that bloomed so prodigally but for_the_most_part beyond our reach ; snowballs ; hollyhock blossoms that , turned upside_down , make pink petticoated ladies ; and the little , dark_blue larkspur that scattered its seed everywhere . Related terms |
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[ verb ] increase or accumulate at a rapidly accelerating rate
Used in print (Frank Murphy, "New Southern Fiction: Urban or Ag...)As the New_South snowballs toward further urbanization , it becomes more_and_more homogeneous with the North - a tendency which Willard_Thorp terms `` Yankeefication '' , as evidenced in such cities as Charlotte , Birmingham , and Houston . Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 22621
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[ noun ] (food) ball of crushed ice with fruit syrup
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[ verb ] throw snowballs at
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[ noun ] (food) ball of ice cream covered with coconut and usually chocolate sauce
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