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<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">(<br/>''Also called'' mammatus.) Hanging protuberances, like pouches, on the undersurface of a  [[cloud]].</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">This supplementary cloud feature occurs mostly with [[cirrus]], [[cirrocumulus]], [[altocumulus]],  [[altostratus]], [[stratocumulus]], and [[cumulonimbus]]; in the case of cumulonimbus, mamma generally  appear on the underside of the [[anvil]] ([[incus]]). <br/>''See'' [[cloud classification]].</div><br/> </div>
<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">(''Also called'' mammatus.) Hanging protuberances, like pouches, on the undersurface of a  [[cloud]].</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">This supplementary cloud feature occurs mostly with [[cirrus]], [[cirrocumulus]], [[altocumulus]],  [[altostratus]], [[stratocumulus]], and [[cumulonimbus]]; in the case of cumulonimbus, mamma generally  appear on the underside of the [[anvil]] ([[incus]]). <br/>''See'' [[cloud classification]].</div><br/> </div>
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mamma

(Also called mammatus.) Hanging protuberances, like pouches, on the undersurface of a cloud.

This supplementary cloud feature occurs mostly with cirrus, cirrocumulus, altocumulus, altostratus, stratocumulus, and cumulonimbus; in the case of cumulonimbus, mamma generally appear on the underside of the anvil (incus).
See cloud classification.


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