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Definition of Cirrocumulus cloud
1. Noun. A cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cirrocumulus Cloud
Literary usage of Cirrocumulus cloud
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Greenland, the Adjacent Seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific by Bernard O'Reilly (1818)
"This radiation seemed to shoot from behind and above the cirrocumulus cloud just
mentioned, instantaneous, rapid, and resistless as the polar coruscation. ..."
2. The Climate of London: Deduced from Meteorological Observations Made in the by Luke Howard (1833)
"cirrocumulus cloud, very beautiful, interchanging with Cirrostratus, succeeded
by large Cumuli. In the evening some appearance of a thunder storm far in the ..."
3. The Leading Facts of New Mexican History by Ralph Emerson Twitchell (1917)
"... while the Laguna del Perro (Dog Lake) glistens in the sun and a mirage shimmers
between the horizon and the cirrocumulus cloud masses. ..."
4. Die drei gerechten Kammacher by Gottfried Keller (1914)
"... is used figuratively to describe small foamy waves, also light fleecy clouds,
the cirrocumulus cloud. The resemblance in both cases is, of course, ..."
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