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plural fracti
(meteorology) A cloud species which consists of broken shreds of cloud; scud. quotations
FIGURE 5.17 […] The ragged-appearing clouds beneath the nimbostratus are stratus fractus, or scud.
2013, C. Donald Ahrens, Robert Henson, Meteorology Today, 11th edition, Cengage Learning, page 130