"silver frost" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: silver frosts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} silver frost (usually uncountable, plural silver frosts)
  1. (meteorology, colloquial) A deposit of glaze on trees, shrubs, and other exposed objects during a fall of freezing precipitation; the product of an ice storm. Tags: colloquial, uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Meteorology Synonyms: silver thaw [meteorology, climatology, natural-sciences], verglas [meteorology, climatology, natural-sciences]
    Sense id: en-silver_frost-en-noun-Jl5q1qek Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences

Inflected forms

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