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STRATUS
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Irregular inflected form: strati
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large dark low cloud
Synonyms:
stratus; stratus cloud
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("stratus" is a kind of...):
cloud (a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stratus"):
altostratus; altostratus cloud (a stratus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles)
