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noun
a type of thick cirrus cloud spreading from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud
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How to use false cirrus in a sentence

  • Sometimes the upper margins have the compact shape of cumulus, or form massive heaps round which floats delicate false cirrus.

    Meteorology|Charles Fitzhugh Talman
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