mare's-tails
High feathery clouds
Mare's-tails are wispy, high-altitude cirrus clouds that streak across the sky like flowing horse hair.
The term also names a common aquatic plant with whorls of fine, hair-like leaves around a central stem.
Both uses derive from resemblance to a horse's tail: Mare's-tails in the morning sky often signal changing weather.
Thin and insubstantial
- featheryLight and soft-textured
- streamersDecorative hanging ribbons
- fibrousMade of threads
- delicateEasily broken or harmed
horsetails · filaments · tendrils · high-altitude · stratospheric · jetstream · translucent · ethereal
Jointed flowerless marsh plant
- fernSpore-spreading vascular plant
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- fossilPreserved ancient organism
- sporeAsexual reproductive cell
wetland · marshland · riverbank · silica · primitive · botanical · medicinal · herbal
Day yielding to darkness
- sunriseMorning light's arrival
- twilightLight after sunset
- horizonApparent earth-sky meeting
- haloLuminous ring overhead
iridescence · cloudscape · skygazing · atmosphere · heavens · celestial · overcast · dramatic
Prediction of future conditions
- barometerInstrument gauging atmospheric pressure
- fair-weatherUnreliable when challenged
- meteorologyStudy of atmospheric phenomena
- omenProphetic indicator
wispy
Thin and insubstantial
delicate · horsetails · filaments · tendrils · high-altitude · stratospheric · jetstream · translucent · ethereal · hooked
horsetail
Jointed flowerless marsh plant
- fernSpore-spreading vascular plant
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- fossilPreserved ancient organism
spore · wetland · marshland · riverbank · silica · primitive · botanical · medicinal · herbal · Paleozoic
sunset
Day yielding to darkness
halo · iridescence · cloudscape · skygazing · atmosphere · heavens · celestial · overcast · dramatic · painting
forecast
Prediction of future conditions
- barometerInstrument gauging atmospheric pressure
- fair-weatherUnreliable when challenged
- meteorologyStudy of atmospheric phenomena
omen · portent · prediction · atmospheric
mare's-tailsthunderheads
Tall, anvil-shaped storm clouds
cumulonimbus · storm clouds · thunderclouds · dark clouds · nimbostratus
mare, tail, tails, mares, mare's-tail, tailed, tailless, taillike