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snow·cap

 (snō′kăp′)
n.
Snow covering a mountain peak, especially such snow existing year-round.

snow′capped′ adj.
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snowcap

(ˈsnəʊˌkæp)
n
(Physical Geography) a cap of snow, as on the top of a mountain
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snow•cap

(ˈsnoʊˌkæp)

n.
a layer of snow forming a cap on or covering the top of something, as a mountain peak or ridge.
[1870–75]
snow′capped`, adj.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.snowcap - a covering of snow (as on a mountain peak)snowcap - a covering of snow (as on a mountain peak)
covering, natural covering, cover - a natural object that covers or envelops; "under a covering of dust"; "the fox was flushed from its cover"
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Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and periodically inundate its temperate zones.
Most of Lebanon's fresh water is stored in mountain snowcaps or filters into the ground, feeding the thousands of wells that supply water to the capital of Beirut and its surrounding areas along the way.
Nitrogen glaciers, ice mountains, methane snowcaps, and now--apparently--methane "sand" dunes.
Greenland was clear both ways, going there and coming back, and it's a surreal life experience seeing Greenland with the mountains jetting out of the water, glaciers, snowcaps and icebergs floating in the water.
Almost 25 years after discovering a well-preserved mummy in the snowcaps of the Austrian-Italian border, scientists are still learning more information about the nearly 5,300-year-old Iceman from Bolzano, Italy.
The new brand ambassador of oral-glutathione Snowcaps is so accommodating to the point that his costars chide him, Don't be too kind and nice, because the Lord might take you early.
It enumerated the couples' numerous TV commercials and print ads including multinational giants (McDonalds, Coca-Cola), telco/gadgets (Talk 'N Text, O+), household products (Zonrox, Downy, Tide), food (Bear Brand Adult Plus, 555 Sardines, Datu Puti), clothing (Boardwalk, Bench), as well as beauty and grooming products (Rejoice, Hapee, Bench Fix, Snowcaps).
Highland Perthshire has a beauty all of its own, where the mountains keep their snowcaps all year round and the snowgates close with weather warnings, leaving the few roads that criss-cross the Cairngorms National Park impassible.
I'm a western woman; I grew up in sight of mountains with permanent snowcaps, and hiking trails that go for days without any signs of human habitation.
"The snowcaps are melting and it is predicted than in six to 10 years they will be gone.
People there have electricity all the time during the summer, when melting snowcaps keep the rivers higher.