Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Resembling a pile or mound; heaped up.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling cumuli; cumuliform; cumulose: applied to clouds.
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- adjective Alternative form of
cumulus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective thrown together in a pile
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Examples
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It has been raining for eighteen days, but on the horizon there is a sliver of blue sky and beneath the cumulous the sun is threatening to break through.
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
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It has been raining for eighteen days, but on the horizon there is a sliver of blue sky and beneath the cumulous the sun is threatening to break through.
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
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I loved when the air turned wet and kinetic, when the wind brought in fat, dusty cumulous formations that rose up like nuclear explosions.
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En route, as I looked up at a beautiful blue sky filled with just a few floating, cottony-like cumulous clouds, I was captured by another view in the sky.
Mike Schwager: Can Communications Serve the Human Heart? Mike Schwager 2010
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There are three main groups of clouds: cumulous, cirrus and stratus.
Cloudy The Year in Pictures 2009
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Brant Foote, a longtime scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., said the clouds photographed by Wiggins already fit into the existing cumulous classification.
Cloudy The Year in Pictures 2009
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Does he notice the thick cumulous lifeforms that escape from his mouth in shapes that shift and evanesce like the opportunities that once populated his life?
Pretty White Gloves 2009
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There are three main groups of clouds: cumulous, cirrus and stratus.
Archive 2009-06-01 The Year in Pictures 2009
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The surrounding hills and mountains, rising 350 feet from the Raritan River Valley below, were dappled in reds and yellows and browns, lighted in places by rays of sunlight penetrating tall grey cumulous clouds.
The Tower [Fiction] 2009
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Brant Foote, a longtime scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., said the clouds photographed by Wiggins already fit into the existing cumulous classification.
Archive 2009-06-01 The Year in Pictures 2009
bilby commented on the word cumulous
Yeah, especially a pile of clouds.
September 7, 2008