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Mackerel Sky

Definition: Mackerel Sky

Mackerel Sky

Noun

1. A sky filled with rows of cirrocumulus or small altocumulus clouds.

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Specialty Definition: Mackerel Sky

DomainDefinition

Literature

Mackerel Sky (A). A sky spotted like a mackerel. (Mackerel from the Latin, macula, a spot whence the French maquereau. German mackrele, Welsh macrell, etc.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: Mackerel Sky

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Bubble

Cloud, vapor, fog, mist, haze, steam, geyser; scud, messenger, rack, nimbus; cumulus, woolpack, cirrus, stratus; cirrostratus, cumulostratus; cirrocumulus; mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky; curl cloud; frost smoke; thunderhead.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Mackerel Sky

English words defined with "mackerel sky": Mackerel-back skyrow. (references)

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Modern Translation: Mackerel Sky

Language Translations for "mackerel sky"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

небе покрито с перести облаци. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bárányfelhõs égbolt, bárányfelhõs ég. (various references)

   

Manx

  

speyr vreck. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ackerelmay yskay

   

Russian 

  

небо барашками. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nebo ispunjeno talasastim oblacima. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cielo aborregado. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

himmel med makrillmoln. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

parçalı bulutlu gökyüzü. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

trời phủ đầy những đám mây bông trắng nhỏ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Mackerel Sky

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-k-k-l-m-r-s-y"

-2 letters: mackerels, yarmelkes.

-3 letters: mackerel, reclames, yarmelke.

-4 letters: amerces, calkers, cereals, keckles, lackers, lackeys, leakers, mackles, marcels, myceles, racemes, reclame, relaces, remakes, rescale, sclerae, screaky, sealery, skylark, slacker, smacker, yakkers.

-5 letters: ackees, ameers, amerce, calker, calmer, camels, carles, celery, cereal, clears, cleeks, clerks, crakes, creaks, creaky, creams, creamy, crease, creasy, creeks, creels, cremes, cresyl, cymars.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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