hoarfrost
hoarfrost
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Definition(s):
- (n) ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
Usage(s):
- Heavy hoarfrost formed each night; and in the morning the dead in the streets glittered.
- All of them see white patches at the planet's poles, which they accept as thin layers of ice or hoarfrost.
- Suddenly they wake up one morning to find sunlight sparkling off the hoarfrost and a silvery net of ice crystals on the puddles in the driveway.
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