cap cloud

English

Noun

cap cloud (plural cap clouds)

  1. (meteorology) An accessory cloud in the form of a cap which occurs above, or attached to, cumulus, cumulonimbus, and sometimes stratocumulus clouds.
    Synonym: pileus
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