Other forms: snowdrops
A snowdrop is a tiny white flower that comes up while it is still cold. The first snowdrops, a carpet of snowdrops, snowdrops in January.
It makes its own small warmth as it grows and can push through frozen ground, which is why it flowers before anything else. It is not native to Britain and has been grown here since at least the sixteenth century.
1nounsnowdropA tiny white flower that comes up while it is still cold.
“The first snowdrops appeared under the hedge in late January.”
snowdrop is a flower.
Snow plus drop, from the shape of the hanging flower.
From snow + drop.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA