Niveus
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Also known as: nivea, niveum
A color epithet describing a pure, brilliant, glistening white — specifically the shade of fresh snow. It implies a brighter, cleaner white than albus and often refers to flowers of exceptional whiteness or to plants with snow-white hairs. Appears as niveus (masculine), nivea (feminine), or niveum (neuter).
Etymology
From Latin niveus, meaning "snowy" or "snow-white," from nix/nivis (snow).
Example
“Leucanthemum niveum and Stachys nivea both have the characteristically brilliant, pure-white flowers or woolly-white foliage that earns this snow-white epithet.”