"meltoff" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: meltoffs [plural]
Etymology: melt + off Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} meltoff (countable and uncountable, plural meltoffs)
  1. The melting of snowpack at the end of winter. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-meltoff-en-noun--lF-akhm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 68 32 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 67 33 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 68 32
  2. The water produced by the melting of the snowpack. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-meltoff-en-noun-bAqCMUym

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2012, Larry L. Tieszen, Vegetation and Production Ecology of an Alaskan Arctic Tundra, →ISBN:",
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, H.H. Genoways, Current Mammalogy - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 169:",
          "text": "In years of late meltoff, ground squirrels emerge and burrow up through the snow with little difficulty.",
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        "uncountable"
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    },
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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, →ISBN, page 99:",
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