Cumulus

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A dense, white, fluffy, flat-based cloud with a multiple rounded top and a well-defined outline, usually formed by the ascent of thermally unstable air masses.
  • n. A pile, mound, or heap.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A large white puffy cloud that develops through convection. On a hot, humid day, they can form towers and even become cumulonimbus clouds.
  • n. A mound or heap.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One of the four principal forms of clouds. Seecloud.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The kind of cloud which appears in the form of rounded heaps or hills, snowy-white at top with a darker horizontal base, characteristic of mild, calm weather, especially in summer; the summer-day cloud. See cut under cloud, 1.
  • n. In anatomy, a heap of cells surrounding a ripe ovum in the Graafian follicle, and constituting the discus proligerus.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a collection of objects laid on top of each other
  • n. a globular cloud
  • Cross Reference
    Variant
    cumuli    cloud   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    heap    cloudy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    accedit    optata    stratus    discat    pesty    cotton wool    meritus    cumulous    concedat    fugae