cloudling
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
cloudling (plural cloudlings)
- A small or miniature cloud; an immature or formative stage in the development of a cloud.
- 1894, George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray, John St. Loe Strachey, The Cornhill magazine:
- And yet at first it seemed hard to believe that so innocent a cloudling could be the progenitor of mist dense enough to blot out even a section of the enormous landscape.
- 2009, Chloe Aridjis, Book of clouds:
- “I'll give you an example: a cloudling may coalesce one morning and rise to the sky, ready to meander across the horizon for a few hours before joining a bank of other cloudlings.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
small cloud — see cloudlet