Meaning & use
cumulous
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Resembling or characteristic of cumulus clouds; heaped or piled up in masses.
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Cumulous formations drifted lazily across the summer sky.
The painting captured a sky full of cumulous, cotton-like clouds.
A note on using this word
Often confused with 'cumulus' (the noun naming the cloud type itself); 'cumulous' is the adjective describing something shaped like it.
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cloud-likeheaped
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