WordNet
summer snowflake
n. common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes; naturalized in the eastern United States [syn: starflower, sleepy dick, Ornithogalum umbellatum]
Usage examples of "summer snowflake".
Emma kissed her hand to me, and as she did I saw between us, for a brief hallucinatory moment, a single white locust blossom spinning slowly, slowly, like a summer snowflake.