ice needle

Questions about ice needle

What does ice needle mean?

ice needle means "small crystals of ice".

What is another word for ice needle?

Close synonyms include ice crystal, snow mist, diamond dust, poudrin, 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 needle a common word?

ice needle 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.