Icemelt

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The melting of a geographical mass of ice. countable, uncountable

    "Many of the Sierra Nevada fans have associated perennial streams fed by rainfall, snowmelt or glacial icemelt in the catchments."

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"Many of the Sierra Nevada fans have associated perennial streams fed by rainfall, snowmelt or glacial icemelt in the catchments."

Etymology

From ice + melt.

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