Crossword clues for snowcap
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snowcap \Snow"cap`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A very small humming bird ( Microch[ae]ra albocoronata) native of New Grenada.
Note: The feathers of the top of the head are white and snining, the body blue black with a purple and bronzy luster. The name is applied also to Microch[ae]ra parvirostris of Central America, which is similar in color.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) A layer of snow covering a mountain top. 2 (context countable English) A small hummingbird, ''Microchera albocoronata'', which is a resident breeder in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and western Panama.
WordNet
n. a covering of snow (as on a mountain peak)
Wikipedia
The snowcap (Microchera albocoronata) is a small hummingbird. It is the only member of the genus Microchera.
Usage examples of "snowcap".
The tallest of them, StOmer, stood high above the others, its conical snowcap already glowing a musky white as it guarded the northeastern extremity of the range.
Her long, blond hair cascaded from beneath her white knitted snowcap, and her chubby cheeks were rosy from the cold.
The elixir ran down into his stomach, gathering speed like the falling wave of an incoming tide until it crashed inside him, then spread throughout his body like water coming down off a snowcap, filling in every crack and crevice.
By late morning he was crossing a high, almost flat divide, sunshine making the bright-gleaming snowcap on Pikes Peak almost hurtful to the eye.
Every road in Tibet, it seemed, was a snake track winding in and around towering mountains, scarps and snowcaps and then dropping into valleys that were yellow with mustard and lush green gorges.
The snowcaps were left behind, vanishing through the rear ob-slits, and the highway stretched straight and level ahead of them.
Above, beyond 10,000, feet, swollen mountains obscured the sky, snowcaps glinting.
Alacrity eagerly anticipated seeing the Andean snowcaps from this spot.
Sioned was far away, soaring over the towering snowcaps of the Great Veresch, then south to the Catha Hills, and finally to Goddess Keep.