CUMULOSTRATUS Antonyms

• a stratus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles

• a cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples

• a thin uniform layer of hazy cloud at high altitude

• usually coiled

• a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles)

• a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile

• According to the World Meteorological Organization, a mid-level, principal cloud type, generally formless and dark grey in colour, which forms from altostratus occurring in layers at the middle altitude of the troposphere (usually above 2400 metres). Nimbostratus usually brings precipitation as the mid-level clouds thicken and subside into the low level of the troposphere. Frontal or cyclonic lift can also carry the top of a deep nimbostratus layer into the high levels of the troposphere. Also classified or characterized as multi-level; abbreviated Ns.

• A principal low-level cloud type, predominantly stratiform, in the form of a gray and/or whitish layer or patch, which nearly always has dark parts and is nonfibrous.