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thunderheads

thunderheads is the plural of thunderhead.

Meaning of thunderhead

Noun

thunderhead (plural thunderheads)

  1. The top portion of a cumulonimbus cloud, which tends to be flattened or fibery in appearance, and may be indicative of thunderstorm activity.
    • Half the sky was checkered with black thunderheads, but all the west was luminous and clear:1918, Willa Cather, chapter 19, in My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 158

Questions about thunderheads

What is thunderheads the plural of?
Thunderheads is the plural of thunderhead.

Words near thunderheads in the dictionary

  1. thundergods
  2. thundergust
  3. thundergusts
  4. thunderhead
  5. thunderheaded
  6. thunderheads
  7. thunderiest
  8. thunderin'
  9. thundering
  10. thundering herd
  11. thundering herd problems

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