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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A band of cirro-stratus clouds stretching almost entirely across the sky and tapering at each end, by reason of perspective, so that it resembles the outline of a salmon. Sometimes it has tessellations like the scales of a fish.
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ruzuzu commented on the word salmon-cloud
"n. A band of cirro-stratus clouds stretching almost entirely across the sky and tapering at each end, by reason of perspective, so that it resembles the outline of a salmon. Sometimes it has tessellations like the scales of a fish." --CD&C
February 9, 2012