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- rare outside compoundsclimatologyA cloud that develops from another, different cloud.
2019 November 6, Mother Clouds, in Atticus Review There are two kinds of mother clouds: genitus, where a part of a cloud may develop, and more or less pronounced extensions may form; and mutatus […]
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Cumulus genitus (Cugen) A developing cu may reach equilibrium at any stage [...and] can spread out as stratiform cloud [...]
2014, Pilot's Weather: A Commonsense Approach to MeteorologyIt is kind of hard to difference but a genitus cloud is a totally newborn cloud that comes from a previous cloud and mutatus is more the previous cloud that transformed into another. For example, an altostratus coming from a cirrostratus, is mutatus because it is the same cloud, just denser and lower. It transformed so much that it can't be cirrostratus. But a cirrus spissatus that comes from a died thunderstorm is genitus because the cumulonimbus died while some of its upper parts began to be another, totally different cloud.
2020 May 27, MrNonam3 (username), in What is the difference between mutatus and genitus clouds?
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genitus. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/genitus
“genitus.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/genitus. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “genitus,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/genitus.
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