graupel
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Noun — Precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets accumulate on a snowflake.
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Etymology
Borrowed from German Graupel(wetter), literally “graupel (weather)”. Graupel is itself a back-formation from graupeln (“to hail (with soft hailstones)”) plus -el (a diminutive suffix); and graupeln in turn comes from Graupe (“hulled grain, pearl barley”), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *krūpà (“grainy substance; groats;...
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