Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of heaps, or of cumuli.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of heaps.
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- adjective Full of
heaps .
Etymologies
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From cumulus.
Examples
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He had to rise to a considerable height, and was for some moments troubled by the masses of snow-white cumulose clouds that lay beneath him, cutting off all view of the ground.
reesetee commented on the word cumulose
1. (Archaic) Full of heaps (thus cumulus or "heap-like" clouds).
2. of a soil deposit: consisting chiefly of accumulated organic matter.
August 23, 2007
jmjarmstrong commented on the word cumulose
JM surveys the cumulose neighbourhood and it is somewhat lumpy!
February 1, 2010