Definition of "cumulous" [cumulous]

• Resembling a pile or mound; heaped up. (adjective)

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• "It has been raining for eighteen days, but on the horizon there is a sliver of blue sky and beneath the cumulous the sun is threatening to break through."
• "En route, as I looked up at a beautiful blue sky filled with just a few floating, cottony-like cumulous clouds, I was captured by another view in the sky."
• "I loved when the air turned wet and kinetic, when the wind brought in fat, dusty cumulous formations that rose up like nuclear explosions."