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black frost

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black frost
n.
A dry freeze without the protective formation of hoarfrost that results in the internal freezing and death of vegetation.

black frost
n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a frost without snow or rime that is severe enough to blacken vegetation


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In the morning he looked out on the black frost that seemed to press cruelly on every blade of grass, while the half-icy red pool shivered under the bitter wind; but towards evening the snow began to fall, and curtained from him even that dreary outlook, shutting him close up with his narrow grief.
On that bleak hill-top the earth was hard with a black frost, and the air made me shiver through every limb.
Early in December came a black frost, and navigation on the canal was suspended.
 
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