WordNet
adj. covered with snow; "snow-clad hills"; "snow-covered roads"; "a long snowy winter" [syn: snow-covered, snowy]
Usage examples of "snow-clad".
It lies in a low depression near the pole, surrounded by rocky, snow-clad hills.
With full rations the Greek soldiers under Xenophon suffered intense hunger as they traversed the snow-clad mountains of Armenia.
They reached the first shaggy line of snow-clad conifers and were pausing there, trying to determine where the route now led, when far ahead of them up the slope, a great burst of sound came roaring and a thin column of ocherish fuming matter shot up toward the sky, flattened at the top, changed coloration rapidly toward mottled red, then seemed to sag, drifting down toward the earth again.
Beyond him stretched towering and snow-clad peaks, and high in the air were small specks, which he knew to be condors, watching with their eager eyes for their offal food.
Across the small lake no other houses were visible -- only a wall of hemlock spruce with their ragged tips bowed in the manner of prayer or obeisance to the snow-clad mountains beyond, all reflected perfectly in the flat, still waters.
They had heard of the inundations caused by the melting of the mountain snows elsewhere, but there were no snow-clad mountains near them to be feared.
On the morning of October 26th a strong land blink appeared on the south, and before noon we all felt a thrill of excitement at beholding a vast, lofty, and snow-clad mountain chain which opened out and covered the whole vista ahead.