…the coldest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from December to February and in the southern hemisphere from June to August…
…a moth that emerges in the winter, the female of which has only vestigial wings. It was formerly a major pest of fruit trees…
…a resort and citrus-growing city in east central Florida, northeast of Orlando; population 27,909 (est. 2008)…
…the war between the USSR and Finland in 1939–40. Heavily outnumbered by invading Soviet troops, the Finns were defeated and forced to cede western Karelia to the Soviet Union…
…an Australasian flycatcher which has a grey-brown back and whitish underside and constantly wags its white-edged tail…
…a plant of the nightshade family, with cherry-like fruit which ripens in winter…
…a pictorial record or chronicle of the events of each year, kept by various North American Indian peoples…
…a garden of plants, such as evergreens, that flourish in winter…
…a resort and industrial city in central Florida; population 33,353 (est. 2008)…
…a variety of muskmelon with a sweet, edible flesh that requires a long growing season and ripens in late autumn, making it available in many supermarkets during the winter…
…the former Russian imperial residence in St Petersburg, stormed in the Revolution of 1917 and later used as a museum and art gallery…
…sports performed on snow or ice, such as skiing and ice skating…
…a period of abnormal cold and darkness predicted to follow a nuclear war, caused by a layer of smoke and dust in the atmosphere blocking the sun’s rays…
…an evergreen clinging vine that is native to China and cultivated elsewhere as an ornamental ground cover. It has escaped cultivation and is regarded as an ecological threat in some eastern US states…
…a common flatfish of the western Atlantic, having cryptic grey-brown coloration and popular as food in winter in North America…
…a yellow-flowered Chinese jasmine which blooms during the winter…
…an international contest of winter sports held every four years at a two-year interval from the summer games. They have been held separately from the main games since 1924…
…the solstice at midwinter, at the time of the shortest day, about 22 December in the northern hemisphere and 21 June in the southern hemisphere…
…a spell of cold weather at the time in early spring when the blackthorn flowers…
…a plant of the daisy family, which produces fragrant lilac flowers in winter…
…a small herbaceous Eurasian plant, cultivated for its yellow flowers in early spring…
…an aromatic plant of the mint family, used as a culinary herb…
…an Old World shrub or climbing plant which is popular as an ornamental and bears fragrant white, pink, or yellow flowers…
…either of the two times in the year, the summer solstice and the winter solstice, when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortest days…
…the trailing plant of the gourd family which produces the squash…
