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Meteorological phenomenon
Answer for the clue "Meteorological phenomenon ", 7 letters:
moonbow
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A moonbow (also known as a lunar rainbow or white rainbow ), is a rainbow produced by moonlight rather than sunlight . Other than the difference in light source, its formation is exactly the same as for a solar rainbow: It is caused by the refraction of ...
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n. (context meteorology English) A rainbow formed by moonlight diffracted by water droplets in the air, usually fainter than a daytime rainbow and with fewer distinguishable colours.
Usage examples of moonbow.
There was no sign of the moonbow, or the waterfall that sustained it, or even the Eusebian Gorge.
They still hung above the moon-misty drop, the moonbows still made their slow and dreamlike revolutions before the curtain of endlessly falling water, the wet and brutal stone faces of the dog-guardians continued to jut out of the torrent, but that world-ending thunder was gone.
They are inside the wizard's glass, they are inside the pink storm (those pink halos revolving around the light fixtures remind Jake of The Falls of the Hounds, and the moonbows revolving in the mist), and this is happening all over again.