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incus

A supplementary cloud feature peculiar to cumulonimbus capillatus; the spreading of the upper portion of cumulonimbus when this part takes the form of an anvil with a fibrous or smooth aspect.

Also called anvil, anvil cloud, and thunderhead.


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