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Types of Cloud:
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Altus (alto) meaning 'height'
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Capillatus meaning 'having hair'
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Castellanus meaning 'castle-
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Cirrus (cirro) meaning 'lock or tuft of hair'
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Congestus meaning 'piled up'
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Cumuliform meaning 'heap'(heaped)
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Floccus meaning 'tufted'
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Fractus meaning 'broken, irregular or ragged'
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Humilis meaning 'flattened'
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Lenticularis meaning 'lens or almond shaped'
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Mamma meaning 'udder or protuberance'
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Nimbus meaning 'rain cloud'
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Pileus meaning 'cap or hood'
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Stratiform meaning 'flat' (flattened)
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CLOUDS
There are ten basic types of cloud. You can describe a cloud by its Latin name or by what it looks like - bubbly, layer-type.
You can also describe if they are high, medium or low in the sky.
There are ten basic types of cloud. You can describe a cloud by its Latin name or by what it looks like -
You can also describe if they are high, medium or low in the sky.
Stratocumulus