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snowcap

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snow·cap  (snkp)
n.
Snow covering a mountain peak, especially such snow existing year-round.
snowcapped adj.
snowcap [ˈsnəʊˌkæp]
n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a cap of snow, as on the top of a mountain
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Noun1.snowcapsnowcap - 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.
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