Snow

 "He had read somewhere that the Eskimos had over two hundred different words for snow without which their conversations would have probably have got very monotonous. So they would distinguish between thin snow and thick snow, light snow and heavy snow, sludgy snow, brittle snow, snow that came in flurries, snow that came in drifts, snow that came in on the bottom of your neighbors boots all over your nice clean igloo floor, the snows of winter, the snows of spring, the snows you remember from your childhood that much better that any of your modern snow, fine snow." 

Author:  Douglas Adams