Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stratum of low cloud consisting of separate irregular masses; a cloud of the layer type, but not sufficiently uniform to be pure stratus. Also called
cumulo-stratus . - noun See
cloud , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Meteor.) Large balls or rolls of dark cloud which frequently cover the whole sky, esp. in winter, and give it at times an undulated appearance.
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Examples
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There was little wind, and the few strato-cumulus clouds which were visible showed great stretches of azure-blue sky between them.
Around the World in Ten Days Chelsea Curtis Fraser
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As the Division bomber stream of probably fifteen groups (360 airplanes) flew eastward, a great wall of strato-cumulus clouds confronted us.
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When lower and in heavy roundish masses it's called alto-cumulus, which is the fifth on the list, and when it is lower still and looks like a lot of great blue-gray footballs wedged closely together it is known as strato-cumulus. "
The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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