Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as snowball, 2.

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Examples

  • There, in a thicket of lime-trees and old bushes of black currant, elder, snowball-tree, and lilac, there stood a tumbledown green summer-house; blackened with age.

    The Brothers Karamazov 2003

  • There, in a thicket of lime-trees and old bushes of black currant, elder, snowball-tree, and lilac, there stood a tumble-down green summer-house, blackened with age.

    The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1851

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