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Cirrus

noun

(pl. cirri) (Also written cirrhus)

Usually coiled. Synonym: cirrhus.

A wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles). Synonym: cirrus cloud.

A slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile.

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"Cirrus" Quotes from Famous Books

... the fragments of the cloud Join with the nucleus form, Cirrus to Nimbus quickly bowed— Sure ...

— Our Profession and Other Poems • Jared Barhite

... south. In the clean, smooth paths of the middle sky and highest up in air, drift, unshepherded, small flocks ranging contrarily. You will find the proper names of these things in the reports of the Weather Bureau—cirrus, cumulus, and the like and charts that will teach by study when to sow and take up crops. It is astonishing the trouble men will be at to find out when to plant potatoes, and gloze over the eternal meaning of the skies. ...

— The Land of Little Rain • Mary Austin

... want simulation, Grant grumbled mentally. "Southwest quadrant, southeast quadrant clear except for banner-clouding higher ranges. Northwest, scattered alto-cumulus, looks like the onset of a warm front, with the northeast quadrant moderate-high cirrus. And let me talk to Br ... to ...

— A Fine Fix • R. C. Noll

Words linked to "Cirrus" : process, appendage, cirrus cloud, tendril, mare's tail, outgrowth, cloud