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thundercloud
a towering electrically charged cumulonimbus cloud associated with thunderstorms
thundercloud [′thən·dər‚klau̇d]
(meteorology)
A convenient and often used term for the cloud mass of a thunderstorm, that is, a cumulonimbus.
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