cumulo-nimbusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

アナグラム

• nimbocumulus

別の表記

• cumulo-nimbus

語源

From Latin cumulus (“heap”) + nimbus (“cloud”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌkjuː.mjʊ.ləʊˈnɪm.bəs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌkju.mjə.loʊˈnɪm.bəs/
• 韻: -ɪmbəs
• ハイフネーション: cu‧mu‧lo‧nim‧bus

名詞

cumulonimbus (plural cumulonimbuses or cumulonimbi)

1. (meteorology) A cloud with a tall structure and flat base, often associated with thunderstorms.

   Synonym: nimbocumulus (rare)

   • 1921, Lewis R. Freeman, chapter III, in Down the Columbia‎:

     The one to the east (which at the moment seemed to be leaping straight out of the heart of a sinister slaty-purple patch of cumulonimbus) drained the Lake of the Hanging Glaciers; that to the west a desolate rock and ice-walled valley which was rimmed by some of the highest summits in the Selkirks.

派生語

参考

• thundercloud
• rain cloud

アナグラム

• nimbocumulus