Definition of "nevado" [nevado]

• A violent dry, cold wind which blows down the slopes of the Andes in the more elevated portions of Colombia, South America, from about 7 A. M. to sunset. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "These notions are highly interesting to geology and the geography of plants; because, in countries where no height has been measured, we may form an exact idea of the lowest height to which the Cordilleras rise, on looking into the map for the words paramo and nevado."
• "Snow often falls on them, but it remains only a few hours; for we must not confound, as geographers often do, the words paramo and puna with that of nevado, in Peruvian ritticapa, a mountain which enters into the limits of perpetual snow."
• "Cordilleras rise, on looking into the map for the words paramo and nevado."