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cumulonimbus

Definition of cumulonimbus

noun (plural cumulonimbi /-bʌɪ/)

[mass noun] Meteorology
  • cloud forming a towering mass with a flat base at fairly low altitude and often a flat top, as in thunderstorms: the development of clouds from fair-weather cumulus to giant cumulonimbus [count noun]:those clouds that will build west of Baltimore late Sunday afternoon are cumulonimbi

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