• Cloudling

    Origin

    From cloud + -ling.

    Full definition of cloudling

    Noun

    cloudling

    (plural cloudlings)
    1. 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.
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