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Sheet-shaped clouds are called?
They're called stratus clouds
What are black clouds in the sky called?
A dark rain cloud is called a nimbus. These clouds produce rain and snow as they are filled with compact and frozen moisture.
Heaps of rain clouds are called?
Cumulonimbus clouds are what heaps of rain clouds are called. Vertical clouds are the heaped up ones, so their names include the root " cumulus." The big, towering storm clouds are called cumulonimbus.
Who called clouds clouds?
In Old English clouds used to be called weolcan, but the word for a rock was clod, like a clod of earth. Clouds were the same sort of shape as rocks, so they were gradually called clods, and then clouds. So it was the Anglo Saxons, or Old English, who lived between the 5th and the 11th Centuries, who first called clouds clouds.
Large thunderhead clouds that produce precipitation are called?
cumulonimbus clouds
What is the coiling or sheetlike structure of a protein called?
It is called secondary structure of proteins .
What are Large groups of galaxy clusters that appear in sheetlike and threadlike shapes?
Large groups of galaxy clusters that appear in sheetlike and threadlike shapes are called superclusters.
A tough sheetlike membrane that covers and protects tissues are called?
skin
Bone that develops between sheetlike layers of connective tissue is called?
intramembranous bones
What name is given to a sheetlike tendon?
aponeurosis
What are tall puffy clouds called?
They are called "cumulus" clouds, and sometimes are colloquially called "fair weather" clouds.
