nimbostratus
/ˌnɪmbə(ʊ)ˈstrɑːtəs
/ /ˌnɪmbə(ʊ)ˈstreɪtəs/noun [mass noun]
Cloud forming a thick uniform grey layer at low altitude, from which rain or snow often falls (without any lightning or thunder).Lesser values can be recorded in between the main storm cores and from the nimbostratus....
- Well, it is quite light in colour to be a nimbostratus but precipitation all day long in connection with a weather front depicts the cloud.
- Rain and snow often accompany the development of nimbostratus clouds.
Origin
Late 19th century: modern Latin, from nimbus + stratus.
Rhymes
- you-alls
- you and whose army?
- you and yours
- you are welcome
- you bet
- you betcha
- you (can) bet your boots
- you (can) bet your bottom dollar
- you (can) catch more flies with honey than (with) vinegar
- you can lead (or take) a horse to water but you can't make him drink
- you can say that again!
- you can't get a quart into a pint pot
- you can't have your cake and eat it (too)
- you can't judge a book by its cover
- you can't keep a good man (or woman) down
- you can't lose
- you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
- you can't make bricks without straw
- you can't (or can) talk (you shouldn't or should talk)
- you can't put an old head on young shoulders
- you can't teach an old dog new tricks
- you can't win them all (or win some, lose some)
- you could have fooled me!
- you could have knocked me (or her, him, etc.) down with a feather
- you couldn't make it up