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A Dictionary of Ecology | 2004 | | Copyright

cirrocumulus A cloud type comprising shallow, high-level cloud in stable air. The form is sheeted or layered with small-scale billows or ripples. As freezing of the supercooled droplets of young cloud occurs, so the fine-patterned features of the cloud become more diffuse. See also cloud classification.

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cirrocumulus

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | | Copyright

cirrocumulus Cloud type comprising shallow, high-level cloud in stable air. The form is sheeted or layered with small-scale billows, or ripples. As freezing of the supercooled droplets of young cloud occurs, so the fine-patterned features of the cloud become more diffuse. See also CLOUD CLASSIFICATION.

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cirrocumulus

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

cirrocumulus •Callas, callous, callus, Dallas, Pallas, phallus •Nablus • manless •hapless, mapless •atlas, fatless, hatless •braless, parlous •armless • artless •jealous, zealous •endless • legless • sexless • airless •talus • bacillus • windlass • Nicklaus •obelus • strobilus •acidophilus, Theophilus •angelus • Aeschylus • perilous •scurrilous • Wenceslas • nautilus •Silas, stylus •jobless •godless, rodless •Patroclus • topless • coxless •lawless, oarless •Aeolus, alveolus, bolas, bolus, gladiolus, holus-bolus, solus, toeless •Troilus • Douglas • useless • Tibullus •garrulous • querulous • fabulous •miraculous • calculus • famulus •crapulous • patulous • nebulous •credulous, sedulous •pendulous • regulus •emulous, tremulous •bibulous • acidulous •meticulous, ridiculous •mimulus, stimulus •scrofulous • flocculus • Romulus •populace, populous •convolvulus •altocumulus, cirrocumulus, cumulus, stratocumulus, tumulus •scrupulous •furunculous, homunculus, ranunculus •Catullus • troublous •gunless, sunless •cutlass, gutless •earless • Heliogabalus •libellous (US libelous) • discobolus •scandalous • Daedalus • astragalus •Nicholas • anomalous • Sardanapalus •tantalus •marvellous (US marvelous) •frivolous • furless • surplus

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