cumulous

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  1. adjective Resembling a pile or mound; heaped up.

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  • There were no stars visible, because the scud of strato-cumulous cloud had thickened over the warm gulf stream The wind hadn't changed, though. —  149 - King Joe Cay
  • And then the enormous midnight gave up all control, opening out her cumulous body from horizon to horizon, so that the air became solid with so great a weight of falling water that Flay could hear the limbs of trees breaking through a roar of foam. —  Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • I asked them to share their dreams by writing them on post-it cards which they affixed on a 22 "by 27" inch poster whose background was overlaid with a blue sky and cumulous clouds. —  Black Entertainment : Black News : Urban News : Hip Hop News - EURweb.com
  • For me, Web 2.0 is more a cumulous array of disparate technologies that are connected, but are incomplete as singular entities. —  Home
  • Brown thought these bright features looked similar to cumulous clouds - or even like thunderheads. —  Universe Today
 

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  1. from Latin as if *cumulosus: see cumulose.
 

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/ˈkjumjuləs/
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