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Jan. 3, 2015

niveous \NIV-ee-uhs\ adjective 1. resembling snow, especially in whiteness; snowy. Quotes You contemplate all the hours you sat attentive and alert on the flight deck, and how you never grew less enamored of the niveous white magnificence of clouds as you gazed down at them from thirty or thirty-five thousand feet. -- Chris Bohjalian, The Night Strangers, 2011 Origin Niveous stems from the Latin root nix, meaning "snow." -Eous is an adjectival suffix denoting that something has the nature of the stem.

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