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rain cloud
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rain cloud [′rān ‚klau̇d]
(meteorology)
Any cloud from which rain falls; a popular term having no technical denotation.


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So Sir Fred may now be dusting down his old text books so he can brush up his knowledge of oxbow lakes, cumulus nimbus clouds and whatever else they teach in schools today.
He said the huge nimbus clouds were estimated at 25,000 feet deep and built up over the Welsh mountains and the Pennines.
When figures enter Soth's frame, they are almost always rich specimens of the rural grotesque, the dispersed citizenry of Sherwood Anderson and Carson McCullers; In one photo, a pinheaded bodybuilder sits with his rottweiler in a grandmotherly kitchen; in another, a woman in a bouffant poses with a framed photograph of wispy nimbus clouds that resemble an angel.
 
 
 
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