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Dictionary definition: accessory cloud
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- A Dictionary of Weather
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Copyright© A Dictionary of Weather 2001, originally published by Oxford University Press 2001. (Hide copyright information)
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accessory cloud
A form of cloud that occurs only as an adjunct to certain of the ten principal
cloud genera
(see
CLOUD CLASSIFICATION
). It is sometimes a distinct cloud mass (as with
pannus
,
pileus
...
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