black frost
Damaging dry cold
Black frost is a frost severe enough to kill vegetation without producing the white ice crystals typically associated with frost.
The blackening comes from the damage to plant tissue rather than any visible ice formation.
The term appears mainly in agricultural and horticultural contexts: The black frost destroyed the citrus crop.
Become solid from cold
- cold snapBrief period of bitter chill
- hard freezeExtended sub-freezing temperatures
- subzeroBelow the freezing point
- frozen groundSoil solidified by cold
winterkill · plant damage · crop loss · bitter cold · temperature drop · freezing point · ice crystals
freeze
Become solid from cold
- cold snapBrief period of bitter chill
- hard freezeExtended sub-freezing temperatures
- subzeroBelow the freezing point
frozen ground · winterkill · plant damage · crop loss · bitter cold · temperature drop · freezing point · ice crystals
- Frosthoarfrost, rime, frozen dew, ice crystals, defrost
- cold weathercold, freeze, frigid, bitter cold, cold snap
black frostwhite frost
Frozen water vapor on surfaces
hoar frost · hoarfrost · rime
black, frost, blacks, blacked, blacking, blacken, blackish, blackness, blackly