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Cumulonimbus

//ˌkju.mjə.loʊˈnɪm.bəs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A cloud with a tall structure and flat base, often associated with thunderstorms.

    "The one to the east (which at the moment seemed to be leaping straight out of the heart of a sinister slaty-purple patch of cumulonimbus) drained the Lake of the Hanging Glaciers; that to the west a desolate rock and ice-walled valley which was rimmed by some of the highest summits in the Selkirks."

  2. 2
    a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms wordnet

Etymology

From Latin cumulus (“heap”) + nimbus (“cloud”).

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