Cumulonimbus are a dense and vertically developed cloud that produces thunderstorms. The cloud can bring heavy showers, hail, lightning, high winds and sometimes tornadoes.
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Cumulonimbus
//ˌkju.mjə.loʊˈnɪm.bəs//
Synonyms for "cumulonimbus" (5 found)
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26 translations across 21 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- купесто-дъждовен облак noun (cloud)
Catalan
2 entries- cumulonimbe noun (cloud)
- cumulonimbus noun (cloud)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 積雨雲 /积雨云 noun (cloud)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 積雨雲 /积雨云 noun (cloud)
Dutch
1 entries- cumulonimbus noun (cloud)
Finnish
2 entries- kuuropilvi noun (cloud)
- ukkospilvi noun (cloud)
French
1 entries- cumulonimbus noun (cloud)
German
1 entries- Kumulonimbus noun (cloud)
Greek
1 entries- σωρειτομελανίας noun (cloud)
Icelandic
4 entries- skúraflákar noun (cloud)
- skúraský noun (cloud)
- útsynningsklakkar noun (cloud)
- þrumuský noun (cloud)
Italian
1 entries- cumulonembo noun (cloud)
Japanese
1 entries- 積乱雲 noun (cloud)
Korean
1 entries- 적란운 noun (cloud)
Latin
1 entries- cumulonimbus noun (cloud)
Macedonian
1 entries- кумулонимбус noun (cloud)
Polish
1 entries- cumulonimbus noun (cloud)
Portuguese
1 entries- cúmulo-nimbo noun (cloud)
Romanian
1 entries- cumulonimbus noun (cloud)
Russian
1 entries- ку́чево-дождевое облако noun (cloud)
Spanish
1 entries- cumulonimbo noun (cloud)
Vietnamese
1 entries- mây vũ tích noun (cloud)
Sample sentences
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Cumulonimbus clouds are towering, anvil-shaped nimbus clouds responsible for heavy rain, snow, and hail.
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Cumulonimbus clouds are associated with thunderstorms.
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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.
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