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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cloud, the highest form of cumulus, appearing in small masses. bright on the sunny and shaded on the opposite side; in the older terminology, a cumulo-cirrus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Meteor.) A fleecy cloud formation consisting of large whitish or grayish globular cloudlets with shaded portions, often grouped in flocks or rows.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a cumulus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles

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