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the first flower brave enough to call winter's bluff and bloom anyway
means A small white flower that nods on a thin green stalk and blooms in late winter or very early spring, often pushing up through snow.
from A plain compound of "snow" and "drop" — both good old Germanic words. The "drop" likely pictures the flower's pendant, teardrop shape rather than a drop of snow, though both images hover. The name appears in English from around the 17th century; some have linked it to the German Schneetropfen ("snow drop"), but the connection is uncertain, and the flower has also gone by older names like "snow-piercer."
- antifreeze trick
- Makes proteins that stop ice forming inside cells
- heat machine
- Generates warmth to melt through frozen snow
- galantamine
- Yields a compound used for Alzheimer's treatment
- mildly toxic
- Bulbs contain poison, deterring hungry rodents
- victorian symbol
- Once linked to death, banned indoors as unlucky
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snowdrop code name — soviet intelligence operation during cold war that recruited cia mole aldrich ames in 1985