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CIRROCUMULUS
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Irregular inflected form: cirrocumuli
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples
Synonyms:
cirrocumulus; cirrocumulus cloud
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("cirrocumulus" is a kind of...):
cloud (a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude)