单词 | nimbopallium |
释义 | † nimbopalliumn. Meteorology. Obsolete. rare. P. Weilbach's name for: a broad, uniform sheet of cloud from which rain falls (now called nimbostratus). ΚΠ 1887 R. Abercromby Weather iii. 112 Weilbach..gives three varieties [of nimbus]—nimbo-pallium, the rain-cloud in front of cyclones, which we have called pure nimbus; nubeculae or scud; and nimbo-stratus. 1896 H. H. Clayton in Ann. Astron. Observatory Harvard Coll. 30 iv. 289 The cloud from which rain falls is divided by Weilbach into nimbo-pallium and nimbo-stratus. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Nimbo-pallium, a broad sheet of cloud from which rain is falling.] This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1887 |
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