"meltoff" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "melt + off",
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      "form": "meltoffs",
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          "ref": "2012, Larry L. Tieszen, Vegetation and Production Ecology of an Alaskan Arctic Tundra",
          "text": "Thus mosses are in a position to photosynthesize at significant rates immediately after meltoff since their relative photosynthetic competence is high and since a substantial amount of evergreen tissue is present.",
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          "ref": "2013, H.H. Genoways, Current Mammalogy - Volume 1, page 169",
          "text": "In years of late meltoff, ground squirrels emerge and burrow up through the snow with little difficulty.",
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        "The melting of snowpack at the end of winter."
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          "ref": "2000, David Gilligan, The Secret Sierra: The Alpine World Above the Trees",
          "text": "The snowpack deepens as long as accumulation exceeds meltoff , usually until mid-March.",
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        {
          "ref": "2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, page 99",
          "text": "It was low and slow at this time of year, all the fish up the creek, all the meltoff out in the Gulf, but it was still beautiful.",
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        "The water produced by the melting of the snowpack."
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  "word": "meltoff"
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        },
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          "text": "In years of late meltoff, ground squirrels emerge and burrow up through the snow with little difficulty.",
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        "The melting of snowpack at the end of winter."
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