nimbus

Examples

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• Most people prefer your dramatic cumulus and nimbus clouds.

  Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001)

• A large nimbus cloud had suddenly appeared, and was drifting towards the sun.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Up ahead, beyond a rise, a nimbus of headlights grew brighter.

  Blog text (18)

• A bright blue sky filled with thick cumulo nimbus clouds.

• Buddy, I've been around the world many times... when I was a young cumulus nimbus cloud.

  Elf (2003)

• I believe the cumulo nimbus gets the name from the Greek God of fluff, nimbiosity.

  The Basement Yard

• I don't see a good anvil yet, but because it's raining and nimbus means rain, I would definitely call that cumula nimbus.

• He had even been learning his clouds: the anvil shape of the nimbus, the difference in altitude and attitude between altocumulus and cirrostratus.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The sky grew dark as a thick nimbus cloud approached, signaling that a storm was on the way.

• We watched as the nimbus clouds gathered, promising rain for the thirsty crops.

Synonyms

R

rain cloud

vsnimbus

4 1.0

A dark grey cloud that brings rain

is used for a cloud that actually brings rain rather than signals it

N

nimbus cloud

vsnimbus

• Specialized

1 4.4

A thick dark grey cloud that makes rain

is the same meaning but used as a shorter single-word form

N

nimbostratus

vsnimbus

• Specialized

1 8.0

A thick low cloud layer that brings steady rain or snow

is more general and means any dark rain-bringing cloud not only steady precipitation

Compounds

N

nimbus cloud

• Specialized

1 4.4

A thick dark grey cloud that makes rain

Surface Forms

Etymology