"meltwater" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: meltwaters [plural]
Etymology: melt + water Etymology templates: {{compound|en|melt|water}} melt + water Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} meltwater (countable and uncountable, plural meltwaters)
  1. Water from melting ice or snow. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Water Translations (water from melting ice or snow): асырӡ (asərdz) (Abkhaz), dowr teudh [masculine] (Cornish), smeltwater [neuter] (Dutch), fandakvo (Esperanto), sulamisvesi (Finnish), eau de fonte [feminine] (French), Schmelzwasser [neuter] (German), leá-uisce [masculine] (Irish), снеговица (snegovica) [feminine] (Macedonian), smeltevann [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), smältvatten [neuter] (Swedish), གངས་ཆུ (english: gangs chu) (Tibetan), dŵr toddi [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-meltwater-en-noun-wYutUQCl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "water from melting ice or snow",
      "word": "གངས་ཆུ"
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