cloudling
A small or miniature cloud; an immature or formative stage in the development of a cloud.
Noun
- A small or miniature cloud; an immature or formative stage in the development of a cloud.
- 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. - 1894, George Smith, William Makepeace...
- “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. - 2009, Chloe Aridjis, Book of clouds:
Origin
From cloud + -ling.