melting snow (noun)

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• snow — 1 noun 1 (U) water frozen into soft white flakes (=pieces) that fall from the sky in cold weather and cover the ground: mountain peak covered with snow | roads blocked by deep snow | melting snow 2 (C) a period of time in which snow falls: one of …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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