Fractus

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A cloud species which consists of broken shreds of cloud; scud.

    "FIGURE 5.17[…]The ragged-appearing clouds beneath the nimbostratus are stratus fractus, or scud."

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scud

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"FIGURE 5.17[…]The ragged-appearing clouds beneath the nimbostratus are stratus fractus, or scud."

Etymology

From Latin fractus.

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