1. cirrus(n = noun.plant) cirrhus - usually coiled;
is a kind of tendril
2. cirrus(n = noun.object) cirrus cloud - a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles);
is a kind of cloud
has particulars: mare's tail
3. cirrus(n = noun.animal) - a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile;
is a kind of appendage, outgrowth, process
1. A tendril or clasper. [1913 Webster]
2. A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri. [1913 Webster]
" In some of the inferior animals the cirri aid in locomotion; in others they are used in feeding; in the Annelida they are mostly organs of touch. Some cirri are branchial in function." [1913 Webster]
3. The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca. [1913 Webster]
4. See under Cloud. [1913 Webster]
cirrus, n. (pl. cirri)
1 Meteorol. a form of white wispy cloud, esp. at high altitude.
2 Bot. a tendril.
3 Zool. a long slender appendage or filament.
Derivative:
cirrose adj. cirrous adj.
Etymology:
L, = curl
N bubble; cloud, bubble, foam, froth, head, spume, lather, suds, spray, surf, yeast, barm, spindrift, cloud, vapor, fog, mist, haze, steam, geyser, scud, messenger, rack, nimbus, cumulus, woolpack, cirrus, stratus, cirrostratus, cumulostratus, cirrocumulus, mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky, curl cloud, frost smoke, thunderhead, nephelognosy, nephograph, nephology, effervescence, fermentation, bubbling, nebula, cloudliness, nebulosity, bubbling, frothy, nappy, effervescent, sparkling, mousseux, frothy, up, cloudy, thunderheaded, vaporous, nebulous, overcast, the lowring element scowls o'er the darkened lands.