niveous

Du latin niveus, dérivé de nix (« neige »).

niveous \ˈnɪvi.əs\

1. Qui ressemble à de la neige.
   • So Cinabar becomes red by the acide exhalation of sulphur, which otherwise presents a pure and niveous white. — (Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 1646)
   • Shining to polished with some metallic colors except the cinereous face which is more niveous on the parafacies, and is slightly dusted on the dorsal surfaces, excepting the two apical tergites. — (Transactions of the American Entomological Society, page 25, 1946)

• snowy

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