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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Chiefly Northeastern U.S. A sky covered with many small cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds, resembling the markings found on a mackerel. Also called regionally buttermilk sky.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A sky in which the clouds have the form called cirro-cumulus—that is, are broken into fleecy masses three, four, or more times as long as they are wide, and arranged in parallel groups. Also called mackerel-back sky.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a sky filled with a regular pattern of altocumulus clouds somewhat resembling the skin of a mackerel.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a sky flecked with small white clouds; a cirro-cumulus. See Cloud.
  2. n. A sky filled with rows of cirrocumulus or small altocumulus clouds.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a sky filled with rows of cirrocumulus or small altocumulus clouds

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