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retral
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niveous


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PRONUNCIATION:

(NIV-ee-uhs)

MEANING:

adjective: Snowy or resembling snow.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin niveus, from nix (snow). Earliest documented use: 1623.

USAGE:

“Here, wooded hills rolled gently away to a horizon wrapped in a niveous haze.”
Cecilia Dart-Thornton; The Ill-Made Mute; Warner Books; 2015.

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