Usually means: Night-shining clouds, high altitude.
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General (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. noctilucent cloud: Merriam-Webster
  2. noctilucent cloud: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Noctilucent cloud: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. noctilucent cloud: Encyclopedia

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  1. NOCTILUCENT CLOUD, Noctilucent cloud: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Noctilucent cloud)

noun:  Noctilucent clouds (NLCs), or night shining clouds, are tenuous cloud-like phenomena in the upper atmosphere of Earth.


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