Cirrus Definition

sîrəs
cirri
noun
cirri
A plant tendril.
Webster's New World
A flexible, threadlike tentacle or appendage, as the feelers of certain organisms.
Webster's New World
The type of white cloud that resembles a wispy filament, found at high altitudes and consisting of ice crystals.
Webster's New World
A cone-shaped cluster of fused cilia, occurring in many species of infusorians.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • cirrhus
  • cirrus-cloud
  • fibrilla
  • alto-stratus
  • mammatocumulus
  • cloudscape
  • alto-cumulus
  • threadlet
  • strato-cumulus
  • cumulo-nimbus

Other Word Forms of Cirrus

Noun

Singular:
cirrus
Plural:
cirruses

Origin of Cirrus

  • From Latin cirrus (“curl”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin curl of hair

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Cirrus Sentence Examples

  • Sometimes they float above the surface, sometimes they are connected with it by stems or branches, and they show delicate striated detail like cirrus cloud.

  • This reformed cloud moved off to the SE leaving thin altocumulus and cirrus much as before.

  • This earlier photograph was taken following a day in which high cirrus had been seeded by aircraft trails.

  • The mornings briefing was for thickening high level cirrus as the day progressed but a short soaring window before it got here.

  • The weather here is glorious - another floor to ceiling blue sky, with some thin cirrus to color it in.

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Words Starting With

CCICIR

Words Ending With

SUSRUS

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Words Starting With C and Ending With S

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