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cumulous

cumulous adjective: of or relating to a cumulus cloud.

Adjective

cumulous (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to a cumulus cloud.
    • On the two albums he's made with his Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, Toward the Margins and the new Drawn Inward (both just released, strangely, on ECM), Parker, Guy, Lytton, and violinist Phil Wachsmann improvise cumulous swirls of sound that get processed by electronicists Lawrence Casserley, Walter...2000 April 7, Peter Margasak, “Evan Parker & Ned Rothenberg”, in Chicago Reader
    • The opportunity offered in the film-like cirrus clouds, which so frequently lie as the background to the more positive forms of the cumulous, for securing the oppositional feeling, is one frequently adopted by sky painters.1903, Henry Rankin Poore, Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures
    Synonyms:
    cumular

Synonyms of cumulous

Questions about cumulous

What does cumulous mean?
Cumulous means of or relating to a cumulus cloud.
What part of speech is cumulous?
Cumulous is an adjective.

Words near cumulous in the dictionary

  1. cumulonimbuses
  2. cumulophyric
  3. cumulose
  4. cumulostrati
  5. cumulostratus
  6. cumulous
  7. cumulus
  8. cumulus oophorus
  9. cumwad
  10. cumwads
  11. Cumwhinton

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