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Definition of Cirrose
1. a. Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf.
Definition of Cirrose
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of cirrhose) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cirrose
1. cirrous [adj] - See also: cirrous
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cirrose
Literary usage of Cirrose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sydney Magazine of Science and Art by Joseph Dyer, Philosophical Society of New South Wales (1858)
"cirrose CLOUD. 32. The second case in which Dr. Button's theory of precipitation
by mixture comes into play is when the upper of two strata happens to have ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In Leguminous plants (the Pea tribe) the pines are frequently cirrose. When tendrils
occupy the place of leaves, ..."
3. The Flora of British India by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1879)
"Cymes many-flowered, on a cylindrical peduncle as long as the petiole, one brauch
cirrose. Male flowers \ in., bell-shaped. Calyx 'leathery, spotted ..."
4. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate by William Saville-Kent (1880)
"On no occasion could less than fifty or sixty of these cirrose filaments be
counted, while in many instances they were found to exceed one hundred. ..."
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