snowy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: snow=y
• COUNT in NET: 2 in 2 verses (in OT : 2 in 2 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

snowy, a. 

•  White like snow.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  Abounding with snow; covered with snow.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
•  Fig.: Pure; unblemished; unstained; spotless.  [1913 Webster]

  "There did he lose his snowy innocence."  [1913 Webster]

Snowy heron (Zoöl.), a white heron, or egret (Ardea candidissima), found in the Southern United States, and southward to Chile; -- called also plume bird. -- Snowy lemming (Zoöl.), the collared lemming (Cuniculus torquatus), which turns white in winter. -- Snowy owl (Zoöl.), a large arctic owl (Nyctea Scandiaca, or N. nivea) common all over the northern parts of the United States and Europe in winter time. Its plumage is sometimes nearly pure white, but it is usually more or less marked with blackish spots. Called also white owl. -- Snowy plover (Zoöl.), a small plover (Ægialitis nivosa) of the western parts of the United States and Mexico. It is light gray above, with the under parts and portions of the head white.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

snowy, adj. (snowier, snowiest)
1 of or like snow.
2 (of the weather etc.) with much snow.

Idiom

snowy owl a large white owl, Nyctea scandiaca, native to the Arctic.

Derivative

snowily adv. snowiness n.

THESAURUS

snowy

argent, argentine, blotless, canescent, chalky, chaste, clean, cleanly, cretaceous, fleecy-white, frosted, frosty, grizzled, grizzly, hoar, hoary, immaculate, innocent, lactescent, lily-white, marble, marmoreal, milky, nival, niveous, platinum, pure, pure in heart, pure white, purehearted, sexually innocent, silver, silvered, silvery, snow-bearded, snow-blanketed, snow-capped, snow-clad, snow-crested, snow-drifted, snow-driven, snow-encircled, snow-feathered, snow-hung, snow-laden, snow-lined, snow-loaded, snow-mantled, snow-sprinkled, snow-still, snow-tipped, snow-topped, snow-white, snowlike, spotless, stainless, swan-white, taintless, unblemished, unblotted, uncorrupt, undefiled, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, virtuous, white, white as snow

ROGET THESAURUS

snowy

Whiteness

N whiteness, argent, albification, etiolation, lactescence, snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster, albata, eburin, German silver, white metal, barium sulphate, titanium oxide, blanc fixe, ceruse, pearl white, white lead, carbonate of lead, white, milk-white, snow-white, snowy, niveous, candid, chalky, hoar, hoary, silvery, argent, argentine, canescent, cretaceous, lactescent, whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond, blanched, high in tone, light, white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as silver, like ivory.