snowflake Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a crystal of snow
    flake.
  2. noun white Arctic bunting
    snowbird; Plectrophenax nivalis; snow bunting.

WordNet

Snow"flake` noun
Definitions
  1. A flake, or small filmy mass, of snow.
  2. (Zoöl.) See Snowbird, 1.
  3. (Bot.) A name given to several bulbous plants of the genus Leucoium (L. vernum, æstivum, etc.) resembling the snowdrop, but having all the perianth leaves of equal size.

Webster 1913