MEANING
Small, relatively soft ice pellets formed when supercooled droplets freeze onto snowflakes.
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Words that belong together
- graupel shower
- pellets of graupel
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Graupel rattled against the window.
The white graupel pellets crushed easily between her fingers.
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Word forms
- Base
- graupel
Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in everyday usage. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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