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UK
/sˌɪɹəkjˈuːmjʊləs/
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NOUN
- a cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples
How To Use cirrocumulus In A Sentence
- Only at the highest levels—up to 45,000 feet—do we find the ice-crystal clouds cirrus ("like white locks of hair"), cirrocumulus ("like grains of rice") and cirrostratus ("a light, milky whitening of the blue"). Cirrus Concerns
- The type of clouds most often found in the high level étage are cirrus, cirrocumulus and cirrostratus.
- High-altitude clouds—cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus—reside between three and seven miles above sea level. MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
- Cirrocumulus has no shading (which altocumulus usually has), and because it is so much higher, the cloudlets of cirrocumulus are much smaller than those of altocumulus.
- It was a good blue one, with a few puffy cirrocumulus clouds, and some altostratus thrown in for contrast. Something Unpredictable
- Only at the highest levels—up to 45,000 feet—do we find the ice-crystal clouds cirrus ("like white locks of hair"), cirrocumulus ("like grains of rice") and cirrostratus ("a light, milky whitening of the blue"). Cirrus Concerns
- It was a good blue one, with a few puffy cirrocumulus clouds, and some altostratus thrown in for contrast. Something Unpredictable
- High-altitude clouds—cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus—reside between three and seven miles above sea level. MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
- So antecedently the box of basinal, the, and the cirrocumulus, i am abuzz to fitzgerald ventrally gelatinousness, sun, and miniature. Rational Review
- Around him, the mountains of southwest Montana towered, glistening peaks lit by snow at their higher altitudes, under a sky so blue it made your teeth ache and wads of cirrocumulus clouds piled high. A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set