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CIRRUS CLOUD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles)
Synonyms:
cirrus; cirrus cloud
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("cirrus cloud" 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 "cirrus cloud"):
mare's tail (a long narrow flowing cirrus cloud)
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