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AEgialitis nivosa
Snowy Snow"y, a. 1. White like snow. ``So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows.' --Shak. 2. Abounding with snow; covered with snow. ``The snowy top of cold Olympus.' --Milton. 3. Fig.: Pure; unblemished; unstained; spotless. There did he lose his snowy innocence. --J. Hall (1646). Snowy heron (Zo["o]l.), a white heron, or egret (Ardea candidissima), found in the Southern United States, and southward to Chili; -- called also plume bird. Snowy lemming (Zo["o]l.), the collared lemming (Cuniculus torquatus), which turns white in winter. Snowy owl (Zo["o]l.), a large arctic owl (Nyctea Scandiaca, or N. nivea) common all over the northern parts of the United States and Europe in winter time. Its plumage is sometimes nearly pure white, but it is usually more or less marked with blackish spots. Called also white owl. Snowy plover (Zo["o]l.), a small plover ([AE]gialitis nivosa) of the western parts of the United States and Mexico. It is light gray above, with the under parts and portions of the head white.

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- Mammillaria nivosa is a species of cactus also known by the name woolly nipple cactus and is native to the Caribbean. Mammillaria nivosa is radially symmetrical...
- Cymbiola nivosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. Subspecies Cymbiola nivosa nivosa (Lamarck...
- Callistocypraea nivosa is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. This species is distributed...
- Podalia nivosa is a moth of the family Megalopygidae. It was described by E. Dukinfield Jones in 1912. It is found in Brazil. The wingspan is about 36 mm...
- Acalolepta nivosa is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Adam White in 1858. It is known from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal,...
- Tiquadra nivosa is a moth of the family Tineidae. It was described by Cajetan Felder, Rudolf Felder and Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer in 1875. It is known...
- Oliva nivosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives. This marine species occurs off French Guiana. Marrat...
- Leptaxis nivosa is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae, the typical snails. It is...
- Phasianella nivosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae. The s**** grows to a height of 2 cm. The spire attains...
- Bombyx sembris Hübner, 1809 Zancle hansoni Stephens, 1833 Phryganea nivea G.-A. Olivier, 1791 Phryganea nivosa Stephens, 1834 Setina ephemera Hübner, 1819...