Assertion: cirrostratus | /r/HasProperty | as noun
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text: As nouns the difference between cirrostratus and nebulosus is that cirrostratus is (meteorology) a principal high-level cloud type appearing as a whitish veil, usually fibrous but sometimes smooth, which may totally cover the sky and which often produces halo phenomena, either partially or completely sometimes a banded aspect may appear, but the intervals between the bands are filled with thinner cloud veil the edge of the veil of cirrostratus may be straight and clean-cut, but more often it is irregular and fringed with cirrus some of the ice crystals that comprise the cloud are large enough to fall and thereby produce a fibrous aspect cirrostratus occasionally may be so thin and transparent as to render it almost indiscernible, especially through haze or at night at such times, the existence of a halo may be the only revealing feature, such as producing a halo around the moon abbreviated: