Usually means: High, thin, ice-crystal clouds.
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  1. cirrostratus: Merriam-Webster
  2. cirrostratus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cirrostratus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. cirrostratus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cirrostratus: Wiktionary
  9. cirrostratus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cirrostratus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  13. Cirrostratus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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▸ noun:  (meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type appearing as a whitish veil, usually fibrous but sometimes smooth, which may totally cover the sky and which often produces halo phenomena. Abbreviated Cs

Similar:
Cirrostratus cloud, cirrus, cirrocumulus, stratocumulus, stratocirrus, cirrovelum, cumulostratus, cap cloud, crest cloud, castellanus, more...

Opposite:
cumulus, stratocumulus, altocumulus

Types:
cirrus, stratus, more...

Phrases:
cirrostratus clouds, Cirrostratus cloud, more...

Adjectives:
thick, thin, high, sheetlike, dense, brown, mingled

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Similar:
Cirrostratus cloud, cirrus, cirrocumulus, stratocumulus, stratocirrus, cirrovelum, cumulostratus, cap cloud, crest cloud, castellanus, more...

Opposite:
cumulus, stratocumulus, altocumulus

Types:
cirrus, stratus, more...

Phrases:
cirrostratus clouds, Cirrostratus cloud, more...

Adjectives:
thick, thin, high, sheetlike, dense, brown, mingled



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