snowmelt.

The melting of snow or the water it produces.

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Words that belong together

• spring snowmelt
• snowmelt runoff

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Spring snowmelt filled the ditch beneath the orchard.

Snowmelt runoff reached the low road before noon.

Usage notes

Primary category: environment. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.