snowmelt

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

snow + melt

Noun

snowmelt (usually uncountable, plural snowmelts)

  1. Runoff from melting snow
    The snowmelt causes the river to flood.
    • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
      Outside, a wind from the south had picked up, a thawing wind that quickened the patter of snowmelt on the back patio.
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