Definitions for cumulus

cumulus cu·mu·lus

Spelling: [kyoo-myuh-luh s]
IPA: /ˈkyu myə ləs/

Cumulus is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in cumulus (clmsuuu).

Definitions for cumulus

noun

  1. a heap; pile.
  2. a cloud of a class characterized by dense individual elements in the form of puffs, mounds, or towers, with flat bases and tops that often resemble cauliflower: as such clouds develop vertically, they form cumulonimbus.

Origin of cumulus

1650-60; New Latin (Latin: mass, pile)

Examples for cumulus

cumulus clouds on sunny days are generally at altitudes of 4000 to 7000 feet.

The cumulus is another form of cloud, which floats along in fleecy masses, in the days of summer, but dissolves at night.

The moon was now well up, but hidden by a mass of cumulus cloud.

I have, however, failed to meet with any trace of the cumulus in my sections.

“We've had a tough go of it this last year,” cumulus CEO Lew Dickey said Tuesday morning.

There were cumulus clouds of varying closeness all the time.

It is of interest to note the appearance of the sky when cumulus clouds are present.

As the cumulus belongs to the day, so does the Stratus to the night.

cumulus Media, which now owns the former Dial Global, declined to comment on the suit for this story.

cumulus clouds, when they are well defined, and advance with the wind, foretell fine weather.

Word Value for cumulus
Scrable

11

Words with friends

17

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