Associations to the word «Stratus»

Wiktionary

STRATUS, noun. (meteorology) A principal, low-level cloud type in the form of a gray layer with a rather uniform base, usually not associated with precipitation, and capable of producing corona phenomena and a weak, uniform luminance; abbreviated St.
STRATUS FRACTUS, noun. (meteorology) Stratus clouds which are scattered or ragged.

Dictionary definition

STRATUS, noun. A large dark low cloud.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats