The word cumulus has a root similar to accumulate and means “piled up.”. From Wordnik.com. [Earth Lenticular | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference
Go out and explain me one of those great wads of wool called cumulus or cumulonimbus. From Wordnik.com. [Passage at Arms]
The first stage of air mass thunderstorm development is called the cumulus stage (Figure 3). From Wordnik.com. [Thunderstorm] Reference
This works to loosen a gel-like coating and sticky layer of cells known as the cumulus corona. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Pregnant] Reference
A few cumulus clouds supplied relief to the blue sky. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Hotspur]
From this cumulus a straight line of lightning shot up. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
Small cumulus clouds began to form during the morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
From the ground it looked just like an ordinary cumulus. From Wordnik.com. [Roc and a Hard Place]
By noon they had drawn together into large cumulus clouds. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Lots of cumulus clouds that are building up on the horizon. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2006] Reference
Pilots recognize it by the permanent veil of cumulus clouds. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest In The Clouds] Reference
The afternoon cumulus clouds had dissipated in a pale blue sky. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Burke's Last Stand] Reference
We were in violation of cumulus clouds, of lightning and cirrus. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2009] Reference
And as I say, a beautiful morning, beautiful towering cumulus clouds. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2007] Reference
Under the stadium lights, on a cumulus-filled Monday in Portland, Ore. From Wordnik.com. [Anchor To The World] Reference
One minute they were in the midst of a cumulus cloud; the next, through it. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World in Ten Days] Reference
We'd come full circle, back to the cumulus covered administration building. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
It was clear to the horizon, but far off a few cumulus clouds were gathering. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
“They cause a change in the electric potentials of the infra-cumulus strata.”. From Wordnik.com. [State of fear]
WITNESSES, with a pavement of dazzling white cumulus beneath their sandalled feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Mark of the Beast] Reference
We're watching out for the possibility of some anvil clouds, as well as cumulus clouds. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2006] Reference
Between the two, the cumulus, even viewed simply as a form-type, represents an exact mean. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
He paints, as a rule, the rolling cumulus, and is one of the first of the younger artists. From Wordnik.com. [Dutch Life in Town and Country] Reference
Cornelio Tacito: nam hic supremus felicitati eius cumulus accessit, laudator eloquentissimus. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
Meanwhile, there issues from the nose and mouth of the previous smoker such a cumulus of cloud as for. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Nowhere in nature may the supremacy of form over matter be so vividly observed as in the cumulus cloud. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
So is stone's squeeze, Margo Lane (Penelope Ann Miller), so there's a lot of cumulus in everyone's cranium. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow] Reference
These clouds were above the redeveloping cumulus congestus clouds displayed in the first photo of this post. From Wordnik.com. [A week ago: thunderstorm clouds at sunset] Reference
Questions hung over me like cumulus clouds, and I hoped that I would be given nourishing, well-heeled answers. From Wordnik.com. [Charu Suri: The Traveling Oxymoron: Luxurious Vegan Cruises] Reference
Brilliant white summer cumulus touched with shadows of mauve and violet were piling up into an ultramarine sky. From Wordnik.com. [Heron Lake] Reference
In the direction of Mount Overlook he could see cumulus clouds and the dark turbulence which meant strong updraft. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenary] Reference
The sun shines brightly in the dry air with some fair-weather cumulus clouds possibly dotting the sky in the afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [Forecast: Labor Day weekend perfection] Reference
Eyes the size of Navy dirigibles, with pupils of deep cerulean blue, floating against the backdrop of the gray cumulus. From Wordnik.com. [Get Out of Our Skies!] Reference
There was little wind, and the few strato-cumulus clouds which were visible showed great stretches of azure-blue sky between them. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World in Ten Days] Reference
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