cumulonimbus cloud

1. 1.

   a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms

   Synonymscumulonimbusthundercloud

   Broadercloud

Questions about cumulonimbus cloud

What does cumulonimbus cloud mean?

cumulonimbus cloud means "a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms".

What is another word for cumulonimbus cloud?

Close synonyms include cumulonimbus, thundercloud. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cumulonimbus cloud a common word?

cumulonimbus cloud is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.