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Cumulus

//ˈkjuː.mjə.ləs// noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    of or related to cumulous clouds wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A large white, puffy cloud that develops through convection.

    "In the sketch (which is taken about 75 Jovian days after that of the 2nd July) there is shown a dark copper-coloured streak along the southern margin of the south brown belt, butting on to a bluff-headed streak of cumulus cloud which may be the same remarkable bluff head noticed on July 2."

  2. 2
    a collection of objects laid on top of each other wordnet
  3. 3
    A mound or heap.
  4. 4
    a globular cloud wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cumulus. Doublet of comble.

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