Amazing Clouds
There are many unusual types of clouds. Some of the common descriptive terms are as follows.

Types of Cloud:

• Altus (alto) meaning 'height'
• Capillatus meaning 'having hair'
• Castellanus meaning 'castle-like battlements'
• Cirrus (cirro) meaning 'lock or tuft of hair'
• Congestus meaning 'piled up'
• Cumuliform meaning 'heap'(heaped)
• Floccus meaning 'tufted'
• Fractus meaning 'broken, irregular or ragged'
• Humilis meaning 'flattened'
• Lenticularis meaning 'lens or almond shaped'
• Mamma meaning 'udder or protuberance'
• Nimbus meaning 'rain cloud'
• Pileus meaning 'cap or hood'
• Stratiform meaning 'flat' (flattened)