: a long narrow cloud or usually a series of such clouds roughly parallel to each other caused by the flow of one layer of air over another producing waves at their interface the relatively cold crests of which are cloud-capped and their relatively warm troughs clear when the humidity is just right
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Meteorol.
a cloud consisting of broad, parallel bands oriented perpendicularly to the wind. Also called undulatus.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.