Usually means: Fluffy, white, low-altitude cloud type.
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  1. cumulus: Merriam-Webster
  2. cumulus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cumulus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cumulus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cumulus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cumulus, cumulus: Wordnik
  7. cumulus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cumulus: Wiktionary
  9. cumulus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cumulus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cumulus: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cumulus: Dictionary.com
  13. cumulus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Cumulus (disambiguation), Cumulus (software), Cumulus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cumulus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cumulus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cumulus: Rhymezone
  18. Cumulus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cumulus: FreeDictionary.org
  20. cumulus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. cumulus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. cumulus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. cumulus: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cumulus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. cumulus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Cumulus: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. cumulus: Medical dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cumulus: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See cumuli as well.)

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noun:  A large white, puffy cloud that develops through convection.
noun:  A mound or heap.

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