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nimbostratus

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nimbostratus From the Latin nimbus, meaning ‘rain’, and stratus, ‘spread out’, a dark or grey cloud that obscures the Sun, associated with more or less continuous rainfall, which makes the cloud base diffuse, See also cloud classification.

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