| CUMULUS | • cumulus n. A large white puffy cloud that develops through convection. On a hot, humid day, they can form towers… • cumulus n. A mound or heap. • CUMULUS n. (Latin) a kind of cloud. |
| FAMULUS | • famulus n. A close attendant or assistant, especially of a magician or occult scholar. • FAMULUS n. (Latin) an assistant, esp. to a magician or a scholar. |
| FUMULUS | • fumulus n. A very thin cloud resembling a veil, especially one formed of water droplets from a rising plume (from… • FUMULUS n. (Latin) a thin cloud. |
| HAMULUS | • hamulus n. (Anatomy) A hook, or hooklike process. • hamulus n. (Zoology) A hooked barbicel of a feather. • HAMULUS n. (Latin) a small hook. |
| LIMULUS | • Limulus prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Limulidae – the Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus). • LIMULUS n. (Latin) a horseshoe crab, also LIMULOID. |
| MIMULUS | • mimulus n. (Botany) Any of the genus Mimulus of flowering plants. • Mimulus prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Phrymaceae – the monkey flower. • Mimulus prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Epialtidae – the foliate kelp crab (Mimulus foliatus), sometimes in Pugettia. |
| RAMULUS | • ramulus n. (Zoology) A small branch, or branchlet, of corals, hydroids, and similar organisms. • RAMULUS n. (Latin) a little branch. |
| TUMULUS | • tumulus n. (Archaeology) A mound of earth, especially one placed over a prehistoric tomb; a barrow. • TUMULUS n. (Latin) a mound over a grave. |
| STIMULUS | • stimulus n. An external phenomenon that has an influence on a system, by triggering or modifying an internal phenomenon;… • stimulus n. (Physiology, psychology, medicine) Something external that elicits or influences a physiological or… • stimulus n. (Botany, entomology) A sting on the body of a plant or insect. |
| ALTOCUMULUS | • altocumulus n. (Physics, meteorology) A fleecy cloud formation consisting of large whitish or greyish globular cloudlets… • ALTOCUMULUS n. (Latin) a type of cloud. |
| TRISTIMULUS | • tristimulus n. A set of three stimuli, especially the red, green and blue components of colour vision. • TRISTIMULUS adj. as in tristimulus values, amounts of each of three colour primaries that must be combined to form an objective colour match with a sample. |
| CIRROCUMULUS | • cirrocumulus n. (Physics, meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type appearing as a thin, white patch of cloud without… • CIRROCUMULUS n. (Latin) a type of cloud. |
| POSTSTIMULUS | • poststimulus adj. Following a stimulus. • POSTSTIMULUS adj. following on a stimulus. |
| FRACTOCUMULUS | • FRACTOCUMULUS n. a type of cloud. |
| INTERSTIMULUS | • interstimulus adj. Between stimuli. • INTERSTIMULUS adj. between stimuli. |
| STRATOCUMULUS | • stratocumulus n. (Meteorology) A principal low-level cloud type, predominantly stratiform, in the form of a gray and/or… • STRATOCUMULUS n. a type of long, wide, low-lying cloud with massive, rounded summits. |