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cloud cap

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noun

Meteorology.
  1. cap cloud.


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One of the most striking of these is the planet's seasonal north polar cloud cap.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 19, 2023

It was worth all the fatigue, cold, and bruises, for that appallingly illogical cloud cap took a new vagary.

From A Woman Tenderfoot by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

Her gray cloud cap is pulled down across her nose and she leans in her hurry against the storm.

From Chimney-Pot Papers by Fritz August Gottfried Endell

There is no snow at the summit, but there is nearly always a white cloud cap there, hence the name.

From Prowling about Panama by George A. Miller

Almost every day in summer there appears above the peak of Mount Blanc a beautifully formed cloud cap standing some distance above it and hollowed out underneath like an inverted cup.

From Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. by Elisha Gray

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