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cloudseed

cloudseed verb: to plant salt into a raincloud in order to trigger rainfall.

Verb

cloudseed (third-person singular simple present cloudseeds, present participle cloudseeding, simple past and past participle cloudseeded)

  1. To plant salt into a raincloud in order to trigger rainfall.

Forms of cloudseed

third-person singular presentcloudseeds
present participlecloudseeding
past participlecloudseeded
pastcloudseeded

Origin of cloudseed

From cloud + seed.

Questions about cloudseed

What does cloudseed mean?
Cloudseed means to plant salt into a raincloud in order to trigger rainfall.
What part of speech is cloudseed?
Cloudseed is a verb.
What is the past tense of cloudseed?
The past tense of cloudseed is cloudseeded.

Words near cloudseed in the dictionary

  1. clouds up
  2. cloudscape
  3. cloudscapes
  4. cloudscraper
  5. cloudscrapers
  6. cloudseed
  7. cloudseeded
  8. cloudseeding
  9. cloudseeds
  10. cloudsful
  11. cloudspotter

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