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单词 meltoff
释义

meltoff

English

Etymology

melt + off

Noun

meltoff (countable and uncountable, plural meltoffs)

  1. The melting of snowpack at the end of winter.
    • 2012, Larry L. Tieszen, Vegetation and Production Ecology of an Alaskan Arctic Tundra, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2013, H.H. Genoways, Current Mammalogy - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 169:
      In years of late meltoff, ground squirrels emerge and burrow up through the snow with little difficulty.
  2. The water produced by the melting of the snowpack.
    • 2000, David Gilligan, The Secret Sierra: The Alpine World Above the Trees:
      The snowpack deepens as long as accumulation exceeds meltoff , usually until mid-March.
    • 2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 99:
      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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