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What does meltwater mean?

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Noun
  1. Water from melting ice or snow.
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Except when engorged by spring meltwater and ice, the Severn River empties serenely into Hudson Bay.
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.
While these lakes existed, they were maintained by the inflow of dirty meltwater from the receding glacier.
Swollen with meltwater from the mountains, a stream rushed between reedy banks.
And because many glaciers store large amounts of meltwater and release it suddenly, lives downstream will be lost.

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