A flake, or small filmy mass, of snow.
Colloquially an ice crystal, or more commonly an aggregation of many crystals that falls from a cloud. Simple snowflakes (single crystals) exhibit beautiful variety of form, but the symmetrical shapes reproduced so often in photomicrographs are not found frequently in snowfalls. Broken single crystals, fragments, or clusters of such elements are much more typical of actual snow. Snowflakes made up of clusters of crystals (many thousand or more) or crystal fragments may grow as large as three to four inches in diameter, often building themselves into hollow cones falling point downward. In extremely still air, flakes with diameters as large as 10 inches have been reported.
a collection of many snow crystals
a component of snow , an aggregate of ice crystals that forms while falling in and below a cloud
an aggregate of from two to several hundred snow crystals
an aggregate of ice crystals that falls from a cloud
an aggregate of snow crystals that form while falling in and below a cloud
a symmetrically shaped piece of falling snow , a crystalline form of water ice
a cluster of ice crystals that falls from a cloud
White ice crystals that have combined in a complex branched hexagonal form.
A snowflake is a group of ice crystals that stick together.
a flake or crystal of snow
An ice crystal or, much more commonly, an aggregation of many crystals which fall from a cloud.