DCHP-3

snow-mushroom

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a mushroom-shaped cap of snow that forms on trees, stumps, etc. in regions where snowfall is heavy and constant.

Quotations

<i>c</i>1902
At a certain altitude in the mountains, much frequented by game because undisturbed by storms, snow falls--falls--falls, without ceasing, heaping the pines with snow mushrooms, blotting out the sun, cloaking in heavy white flakes the notched bark blazed as a trail.
1921
Among the branches huge "snow-bosses" were seen, and "snow-mushrooms" of wondrous shape and bulk were perched upon logs and stumps.
1957
[Midwinter in the Rockies and . . . every stump bears a mushroom of snow.]