Frost-resistant
adj.resilient, capableprofessional
What it means
Able to withstand frost without serious damage.
Reach for it when describing a plant or material able to withstand frost without serious damage
Frost-resistant seedlings survived the valley's sudden cold snap.
Choose between these
6- everyday
a plant tolerates generally difficult conditions
not when Hardy does not identify frost as the tested stress.
- warm
recovery after stress is the useful quality
not when Resilience may mean regrowth after damage rather than resistance.
- professional
cold-tolerant
survival across low temperatures is documented
not when Cold tolerance may stop above freezing and does not ensure frost survival.
- professional
frost-hardy
horticultural prose specifically names frost endurance
not when The term can imply a degree of hardiness that needs a temperature range.
- professional
a plant survives the full local winter
not when Winter hazards include wind and waterlogging, not frost alone.
- formal
freeze-resistant
temperatures below freezing are the defined test
not when Resistance to a hard freeze exceeds a light-frost claim.
Said against
3- frost-tender
- cold-sensitive
- vulnerable
It naturally appears in
3- frost-resistant plant
Each frost-resistant plant survived the valley cold.
- frost-resistant variety
The nursery selected a frost-resistant variety.
- frost-resistant coating
A frost-resistant coating protected the sensor.
Where this comes from
No exact frost-resistant headword was found in Wiktionary on 2026-07-26; the sense is compositionally grounded in frost and resistant. Temperature limits still require product- or cultivar-specific evidence.
Frost-resistant is not a headword in the dictionaries below. The sense was checked against their entries for frost and resistant, and the definition and example here are written for Frost-resistant itself.
- wiktionary, the entry for frost, English noun sense: ice formed near the ground opens in a new tab · retrieved 2026-07-26
- wiktionary, the entry for resistant, English adjective sense: able to withstand something opens in a new tab · retrieved 2026-07-26
The definition and the example on this page are written here. The dictionaries above ground which meaning is being described, not the wording.