mother-of-pearl cloud

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   a luminous iridescent cloud at a high altitude that may be seen when the sun is a few degrees below the horizon

   Synonymsnacreous cloud

   Broadercloud

Questions about mother-of-pearl cloud

What does mother-of-pearl cloud mean?

mother-of-pearl cloud means "a luminous iridescent cloud at a high altitude that may be seen when the sun is a few degrees below the horizon".

What is another word for mother-of-pearl cloud?

Close synonyms include nacreous cloud. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mother-of-pearl cloud a common word?

mother-of-pearl cloud is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.