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Definition of cumulonimbus
: cumulus cloud having a low base and often spread out in the shape of an anvil extending to great heights — see cloud illustration
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Your fingers slip into routines, digital rituals encoded by childhood habits, neural pathways waking like heat lightning blinking through cumulonimbus clouds.
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In it, falling rain evaporates before reaching the ground because of high temperatures, but lightning from the high cumulonimbus clouds reaches the ground.
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If a clear sky in a landscape looked boring, a photographer’s assistant — often a woman (thought to possess a surer hand) — could create a separate negative with billowing cumulonimbuses.
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At the logjammed bars, attendees reached again and again for palomas over bountiful crudité platters offering strips of jicama, spears of asparagus and cumulonimbus piles of purple cauliflower.
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Origin and Etymology of cumulonimbus
New Latin
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