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Definition of Cirriform
1. a. Formed like a cirrus or tendril; -- said of appendages of both animals and plants.
Definition of Cirriform
1. Adjective. (biology zoology) Formed like a cirrus or tendril. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cirriform
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cirriform
Literary usage of Cirriform
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1887)
"... dense stratiform cloud completely covering the sea or land over a large area;
secondly, from cumulus clouds with clean bold outlines and cirriform tops; ..."
2. Meteorology: A Text-book on the Weather, the Causes of Its Changes, and by Willis Isbister Milham (1912)
"Haze and cirriform clouds are prevalent during the day. As the storm passes, the
thunderheads, squall cloud, and nimbus clouds follow in succession, ..."
3. Meteorology: A Text Book on the Weather, the Causes of Its Changes, and by Willis Isbister Milham (1912)
"Haze and cirriform clouds are prevalent during the day. As the storm passes, the
thunderheads, squall cloud, and nimbus clouds follow in succession, ..."
4. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1883)
"... arising from sixteen compressed lobes ; along the bases of the outer rows of
seta> is a scries of eleven to thirteen short cirriform processes, ..."
5. Cloud Studies by Arthur William Clayden (1905)
"The top of the cloud rapidly spreads horizontally, forming a disc of cirriform
cloud, which sometimes spreads several miles ahead of the rest of the storm. ..."
6. Researches about Atmospheric Phaenomena by Thomas Forster (1823)
"Its change to the cirrocumulus is frequently marked by the following circumstances:
it loses its cirriform and fibrous structure, descends lower in the ..."
7. Report Upon the Invertebrate Animals of Vineyard Sound and Adjacent Waters by Addison Emery Verrill (1874)
"Thus there are three parallel rows of cirriform or slender ligulate processes
along each side of the back, leaving a broad, central, naked space all along ..."
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