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plural noun Meteorology.

precipitation consisting of small, slowly falling crystals of ice.

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Also called ice needles.

Origin of ice crystals

First recorded in 1840–50

Words nearby ice crystals

ice-cream parlor chair, ice-cream social, ice-cream soda, ice-cream suit, ice-cream supper, ice crystals, ice cube, iced, ice dance, ice dancing, ice dock

How to use ice crystals in a sentence

The quicker the finished product gets into the hardening cabinet, the smaller the ice crystals.
The Secret to This Ice Cream: Pampered Cows|Jane & Michael Stern|May 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The large powerful motor keeps the paddle moving through the ice cream mixture, preventing big ice crystals from forming.
The 2012 Holiday Kitchen Gift Guide|Megan McArdle|December 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST
It was now nearly calm and in every crack and chink in the snow-bridges beautiful fern-like ice-crystals were seen.
The Home of the Blizzard|Douglas Mawson
There would be ice-crystals in the very centre of his heart, that heart that had glowed so fiercely with the lust of life.
The Trail of '98|Robert W. Service

The heath lay shrouded in a blue-gray mist, and sparkling ice-crystals were flying through the clear winter air.
Dame Care|Hermann Sudermann
Every part of it is covered with little glittering swellings which shine in the sun like minute ice crystals.
The Romance of Plant Life|G. F. Scott Elliot
I also find that the formation of ice crystals in wet mud has been observed in the clays about Boston by Marbut and Woodworth.
Fossil Ice Crystals|Johan August Udden