MEANING
A towering thunderstorm cloud, usually with a high piled or anvil-shaped top.
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Storm development, vast sky shapes, and approaching instability.Put scale and potential storm energy in the sky.
Words that belong together
- towering thunderhead
- distant thunderhead
- thunderhead building
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A thunderhead towered above the plain.
The thunderhead's white summit remained sunlit while its base darkened.
By evening, three thunderheads had formed beyond the ridge.
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- thunderhead
Usage notes
Primary category: environment. An everyday name for a developed cumulonimbus, not every dark rain cloud. Plural: thunderheads
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