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CUMULUS
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Irregular inflected form: cumuli
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A collection of objects laid on top of each other
Synonyms:
agglomerate; cumulation; cumulus; heap; mound; pile
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("cumulus" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cumulus"):
compost heap; compost pile (a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost)
dunghill; midden; muckheap; muckhill (a heap of dung or refuse)
scrapheap (pile of discarded metal)
shock (a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field)
slagheap (pile of waste matter from coal mining etc)
stack (an orderly pile)
funeral pyre; pyre (wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite)
woodpile (a pile or stack of wood to be used for fuel)
stockpile (a storage pile accumulated for future use)
Derivation:
cumulate (collect or gather)
cumulous (thrown together in a pile)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A globular cloud
Synonyms:
cumulus; cumulus cloud
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("cumulus" is a kind of...):
cloud (a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cumulus"):
altocumulus; altocumulus cloud (a cumulus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles)
thunderhead (a rounded projecting mass of a cumulus cloud with shining edges; often appears before a thunderstorm)
