ice crystal

Questions about ice crystal

What does ice crystal mean?

ice crystal means "small crystals of ice".

What is another word for ice crystal?

Close synonyms include snow mist, diamond dust, poudrin, ice needle, frost snow. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ice crystal a common word?

ice crystal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.