Usually means: Hook-shaped cloud appendage formation.
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  7. uncinus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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Definitions from Wiktionary (uncinus)

noun:  (meteorology) A cloud species which consists of fine hair-like strands, with hooked terminations. Associated only with cirrus formations.
noun:  (paleontology) The curved tip of the hooks associated with belemnite tentacles.

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