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cumulo-nimbus

cumulo-nimbus is the alternative form of cumulonimbus.

Meaning of cumulonimbus

Noun

cumulonimbus (plural cumulonimbuses or cumulonimbi)

  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.1921, Lewis R. Freeman, chapter III, in Down the Columbia
    Synonyms:
    nimbocumulus

Forms of cumulo-nimbus

pluralcumulo-nimbi

Questions about cumulo-nimbus

What is cumulo-nimbus the alternative form of?
Cumulo-nimbus is the alternative form of cumulonimbus.

Words near cumulo-nimbus in the dictionary

  1. cumulenic
  2. cumuli
  3. cumuli oophori
  4. cumuliform
  5. cumulo-nimbi
  6. cumulo-nimbus
  7. cumulocirrus
  8. cumulogranite
  9. cumulonimbi
  10. cumulonimbiform
  11. cumulonimbus

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