accessory cloud

English

Noun

accessory cloud (plural accessory clouds)

  1. (meteorology) a small cloud formation which is found attached to, or close by, a major cloud of one of the cloud genera, which is responsible for its formation.

Source AMS Glossary of Meteorology

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