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SNOW-CAPPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snow-capped mean? 

SNOW-CAPPED (adjective)
  The adjective SNOW-CAPPED has 1 sense:

1. (of mountains) capped with a covering of snowplay

  Familiarity information: SNOW-CAPPED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SNOW-CAPPED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(of mountains) capped with a covering of snow

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

snowcap (a covering of snow (as on a mountain peak))


 Context examples 


Here and there, through the dense haze which surrounded them, there loomed out huge pinnacles and jutting boulders of rock: while high above the sea of vapor there towered up one gigantic peak, with the pink glow of the early sunshine upon its snow-capped head.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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