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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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She extracted the burnt grass, the eagle's feather, and the wife and child from the Nandi story and, by a large stretch of the imagination, produced Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain, wherein the Nandi herdsman Ki-pat uses the eagle's feather to shoot a rain cloud ("A feather that helped / to change the weather") rather than to slaughter the enemies' oxen to obtain a wife and child.
But we managed to land beneath every last rain cloud hovering above the entire European continent.
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