英语词汇“mackerel sky”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cirrus /sirˈəs/

noun

cirrˈī

The highest form of clouds, consisting of curling fibrous shapes

A tendril (botany)

Any curled filament (zoology)

ORIGIN: L, a curl, tuft; the common misspellings cirrhus, etc are due to confusion with Gr kirrhos tawny

cirrˈate or cirrˈiform adjective

Like a cirrus

cirrˈigrade adjective

Moving by cirri

cirrˈose adjective

With tendrils

cirrˈous adjective

Having a cirrus

cirrˈo-cūˈmūlus noun (pl cirrˈo-cūˈmūlī)

A cloud of small white flakes or ripples (also called mackerel sky)

cirro-stratus /sirˈō-sträˈtəs/ noun (pl cirrˈo-straˈtī)

A high thin sheet of haze-like cloud

mackerel /makˈ(ə-)rəl/

noun

An edible bluish-green N Atlantic fish (genus Scomber) with a silvery underside and wavy cross-streaks on its back
A pimp (obsolete)

ORIGIN: OFr makerel (Fr maquereau)

mackerel breeze noun

A strong breeze that ruffles the surface of the sea and so favours mackerel fishing

mackerel guide noun

The common garfish, which visits the coasts just before the mackerel

mackerel midge noun

A small rockling

mackerel shark noun

The porbeagle

mackerel sky noun

A sky streaked with long, parallel white masses of cloud