cumulus
Collocations
2ADJ.
dark
VERB + CUMULUS
cloud
Definitions
noun
A large white, puffy cloud that develops through convection.
In the sketch (which is taken about 75 Jovian days after that of the 2nd July) there is shown a dark copper-coloured streak along the southern margin of the south brown belt, butting on to a bluff-headed streak of cumulus cloud which may be the same remarkable bluff head noticed on July 2.
There were some new cumuli in the east, out above the water, and they began to take the late afternoon sun.
A mound or heap.
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Synonyms
noun — a collection of objects laid on top of each other
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4In the sketch (which is taken about 75 Jovian days after that of the 2nd July) there is shown a dark copper-coloured streak along the southern margin of the south brown belt, butting on to a bluff-hea
WiktionaryThere were some new cumuli in the east, out above the water, and they began to take the late afternoon sun.
Wiktionary2007 September 1, "Who’s afraid of Google?: The world’s internet superpower faces testing times", in The Economist, The Economist Newspaper Ltd, ISSN 0013-0613, volume 384, number 8544, page 9, Ironic
WiktionaryIs that dark cloud cumulus?
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