How to use Snowdrop in a sentence

The snowdrop is a doubtful native of Great Britain, but is largely cultivated for market in Lincolnshire.

The Snowdrop. Early spring-flowering amaryllidaceous bulbs, with pretty drooping flowers, snow-white, having the tips of the enclosed petals green.

Besides these there are the various spring-flowering bulbs, such as the varieties of Hyacinthus, Tulipa, Narcissus, Fritillaria, Muscari or Grape Hyacinth, Crocus, Scilla, Chionodoxa and Galanthus or Snowdrop.

Tony Darby had a snowdrop which I didn't know.

The arrangement of the parts in the flower resembles that in the nearly allied order Amaryllidaceae (Narcissus, Snowdrop, &c.), but differs in the absence of the inner whorl of stamens.

Early flowering camellias and hellebores, coupled with the occasional snowdrop, make the new year seem more inviting.

Pusztai and his coworkers created GM potatoes expressing a snowdrop lectin (GNA) to increase resistance to insects and nematodes.

In fact, Pusztai used a snowdrop lectin proven in peer-reviewed research to be harmless to mammals in its natural non-GM form.

Worse yet, rats fed plain potatoes sprinkled with snowdrop lectin did not show these effects.

It was also believed to be unlucky to bring a single snowdrop into a house.

A fine double snowdrop... Few indeed are the flowers to be recorded in bloom.

England's Greatest snowdrop Garden - Order bulbs & see Colesbourne Park, Gloucestershire during its snowdrop weekends in February.

Snowdrop has white feathers, pink eyes, pink feet, a pink face and a very pale beak.

Tony Darby had a snowdrop which I did n't know.

Snowdrop The common snowdrop or galanthus is a genus of the Lily family consisting of about 20 species.

A fine double Snowdrop... Few indeed are the flowers to be recorded in bloom.

So they started an appeal to raise money to buy snowdrop bulbs.

Interesting gardens, tho the main horticultural selling-point is its snowdrop displays in February.

Moreover, the gene introduced into the potatoes was a snowdrop flower lectin, a substance known to be toxic to mammals.

England 's Greatest Snowdrop Garden - Order bulbs & see Colesbourne Park, Gloucestershire during its snowdrop weekends in February.

In practice, during snowdrop season, this means working round the clock.

We checked " Snowdrop " over quickly then I climbed into bed, put her to my breast and she suckled straight away.

Amongst these was a bulb which proved to be a Snowdrop flowering in the autumn, usually in October.

A. amurensis, from Manchuria, has finely-cut leaves, blooming with the Snowdrop.

The Snowdrop Tree is very slow, and grows and flowers badly on heavy, cold soils; on free, sandy loams it grows freely and flowers abundantly, and in that case is the most beautiful of flowering trees.

There are several varieties of the common Snowdrop Tree-Meehani and laevigata and parviflora-as yet rare in gardens though deserving a place.

American Halesias of which the Snowdrop Tree is so well known a representative.

As the name suggests, Snowdrop, is a late winter or early spring blooming bulb that produces a single white flower on each stem.

The flowers are sometimes blooming even while there is snow on the ground, which is one of the reasons the bulb is named Snowdrop.

Snowdrop The common snowdrop The common snowdrop or galanthus is a genus of the Lily family consisting of about 20 species.

It grows in England from 20 to 30 feet high, has a rounded head, with sharply-toothed leaves, in May bearing many white blossoms, in form like the Snowdrop, hence its popular name.

The other reason the plant is named Snowdrop is due to the drooping petals and how they resemble milk dropping off the stem.

Like the Snowdrop, the Eranthis may peek its head out and bloom while there is still snow on the ground.