c 3 u 1 m 3 u 1 l 1 u 1 s 1
7 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a globular cloud
noun a collection of objects laid on top of each other
originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁mósder.? Latin cumulusbor. English cumulus Learned borrowing from Latin cumulus. Doublet of comble. Sense 2 (“type of cloud”) was coined by the British chemist and amateur meteorologist Luke Howard (1772–1864): see the 1803 quotation.
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