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a circle of light you only see half of, because the ground rudely interrupts.
means An arc of spectral colors that appears in the sky when sunlight is refracted and reflected through water droplets, usually after rain.
from A plain Old English compound: 'regn' (rain) plus 'boga' (bow, as in a bent arch or the kind you'd shoot arrows from). So it has always meant exactly what it says — a bow made of rain. The 'boga' part is the same ancient root that gives us elbow, the bough of a tree, and anything that bends, all tracing back to a Germanic word for bending.
- shape
- actually a full circle, visible whole from aircraft
- personal
- no two people see the same one
- order
- red outside, violet inside, always
- double rainbow
- second bow reverses colors and is fainter
- chasing
- impossible; it moves as you move
for instance
rainbow eucalyptus in hawaii — trees with bark that sheds in different colors creating rainbow patterns, native to philippines but famous in hawaiian forests