cirrus

• Soon the ship looked, to all outward appearances, like a cirrus formation. —  GALAXY
• There was high cirrus, like strips of shed snake hide. —  148 - The Terrible Stork
• However, Howard's "modifications" -- cirrus, cumulus, and stratus --have lasted very successfully to the present day and are part of the bedrock of modern meteorology. —  F ;SF - vol 086 issue 01 - January 1994
• The "genera" of clouds are cirrus, cirrocumulus, cirrostratus; altocumulus, altostratus, nimbostratus; stratocumulus, cumulus and cumulonimbus. —  F ;SF - vol 086 issue 01 - January 1994
• Over the narrow valley, against the early stars a strange light appeared, It came from a searchlight somewhere beyond the cliffs, and projected onto a high bank of noctilucent cirrus was a winged black shape. —  Omni: February 1995

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