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What does meltwater mean?

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Noun
  1. Water from melting ice or snow.
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Below the glacier lies granite, seamed through with limestone and marble which the constant rush of meltwater has honeycombed with caves.
Although ice masses in those areas make up only 30 percent of the world's glaciers, they contribute 70 percent of the total glacial meltwater.
Warming surface temperatures in Greenland are allowing more meltwater to trickle down to the glacier bed.
The Copper River alluvial fan is an outwash plain, that is, formed from sediments deposited by glacial meltwater.
Except when engorged by spring meltwater and ice, the Severn River empties serenely into Hudson Bay.
Swollen with meltwater from the mountains, a stream rushed between reedy banks.

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