- one of the small, feathery masses or flakes in which snow falls.
- a person who is considered unique and deserving of special treatment: I have twenty-eight special snowflakes in my classroom, and their parents’ demands make teaching impossible!
- a person who is easily offended, overly sensitive, or emotionally fragile: You snowflakes need to leave your safe spaces and engage with people who disagree with your beliefs.
- Meteorology.
- an agglomeration of snow crystals falling as a unit.
- any snow particle.
- any of certain European plants belonging to the genus Leucojum, of the amaryllis family, resembling the snowdrop.
- snow bunting.
- one of the mass of small thin delicate arrangements of ice crystals that fall as snow
- any of various European amaryllidaceous plants of the genus Leucojum, such as L. vernum (spring snowflake), that have white nodding bell-shaped flowers
