how to pronounce snowdrop

/ˈsnəʊ.dɹɒp/

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snowdrop is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of snowdrop in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… it's called snowdrop and it contains a …”

meanings of snowdrop

noun:

Any of the 20 species of the genus Galanthus of the Amaryllidaceae, bulbous flowering plants, bearing a solitary, pendulous, white, bell-shaped flower that appears, depending on species, between autumn and late winter or early spring, all native to temperate Eurasia.

verb:

To steal clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline.

snowdrop frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word snowdrop occurs in english on average 0.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics snowdrop can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that snowdrop can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;