"cloudling" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1894, George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray, John St. Loe Strachey, The Cornhill magazine",
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          "text": "“I'll give you an example: a cloudling may coalesce one morning and rise to the sky, ready to meander across the horizon for a few hours before joining a bank of other cloudlings.",
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        "A small or miniature cloud; an immature or formative stage in the development of a cloud."
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          "word": "cloudlet"
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