adjective
- granular snow pellets —called also soft hail
Source:
“He opened the first book. It was full of wonderful new words. Transpaseal, for example. Now there was a word that did what it said on the tin. There was more; there were the words and names for variations in snow ans snowflake: plates and stellars, columns and needles, spatial dentrites, capped columns and graupels. Graupels! Wonderful. Here was what Michael was looking for, a whole new language.”
Smith, Ali.the accidental. New York: Random House, 2007: 263.
