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cumulonimbuses

cumulonimbuses is the plural 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

Questions about cumulonimbuses

What is cumulonimbuses the plural of?
Cumulonimbuses is the plural of cumulonimbus.

Words near cumulonimbuses in the dictionary

  1. cumulonimbus capillatus
  2. cumulonimbus flammagenitus
  3. cumulonimbus incus
  4. cumulonimbus tuba
  5. cumulonimbus tubas
  6. cumulonimbuses
  7. cumulophyric
  8. cumulose
  9. cumulostrati
  10. cumulostratus
  11. cumulous

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