My dad was telling me recently that he had a dream about a strange word. (He knows his audience.) In the dream, the word seemed perfectly normal, but when he woke up, he realized it was unfamiliar, and wondered if his subconscious had invented it.
The word was chyron.
I was excited, because I actually knew that one! I said it was a real word, and it means the headline banner they show at the bottom of news shows:
Afterward I looked it up to confirm, and my memory was correct. I also learned how to say it: KYE-RON (it rhymes roughly with pylon).
This word was in the news (ha!) a year or two ago, part of the swirling clusterfudge that was the 2016 election. So maybe that’s where my dad’s subconscious picked it up.
What’s especially cool, though, is that in his dream, chyron had an entirely different definition: it was a feature on the surface of a cloud. I think that’s a much better meaning, and somehow appropriate to the aesthetic of the word.
So now I’m wondering — is there a word for the surface features of clouds? And if not, what would you call them, since chyron is already taken?
Personally, I’m thinking pufftures. But I could be swayed.
Brian D. Buckley 
Clouds are described with a three stage name like living things: GENERA Species variety
So, the fine features would be called variety.
I propose the word “cloudsurfacefeature”. it just has a certain ring to it…it really sounds like it is related to cloud surface features.
Dammit, internet, this is why we can’t have nice things.
Crazy, there is also a mythical figure called Chiron. Who we named one of our programs after.
Neat! I’d never heard of him. [reads wiki]
“… centaurs were notorious for being wild, lusty, overly indulgent drinkers and carousers, violent when intoxicated, and generally uncultured delinquents. Chiron, by contrast, was intelligent, civilized and kind, because he was not related directly to the other centaurs …”