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SNOWSHOE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A device to help you walk on deep snow; a lightweight frame shaped like a racquet is strengthened with cross pieces and contains a network of thongs; one is worn on each foot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("snowshoe" is a kind of...):

device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Travel on snowshoes

Example:

After a heavy snowfall, we have to snowshoe to the grocery store

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "snowshoe" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

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 Context examples: 

After Mills and his students published a series of papers describing the snowshoe hare coat color mismatch, its effect on survival, and how it is likely to increase under climate change, they turned their attention to a global perspective.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

He flung it back, so that it struck the sled and bounced along until it fetched up on Bill's snowshoes.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And leap by leap, like some pale frost wraith, the snowshoe rabbit flashed on ahead.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The habitats and ranges of snowshoe hares and white spruces overlap.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)

He had broken through the melting snow crust, and wallowed, while the snowshoe rabbits had skimmed along on top lightly as ever.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Snowshoe hares have now made their way north to Alaska's shrubby environment beyond the state's forest tree line.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)

High in the air, and straight up, soared the shape of white, now a struggling snowshoe rabbit that leaped and bounded, executing a fantastic dance there above him in the air and never once returning to earth.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

As far-northern tundra gives way to low-growing shrubs and then to forests, the distribution of snowshoe hares is a factor in where spruce trees can successfully grow.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)

Forest scientists and resource managers should therefore keep in mind the ecosystem role of small herbivores like snowshoe hares.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)

Scientists at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site in Alaska are working to understand interactions between changing tree lines and plant-eating animals such as the snowshoe hare.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)