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Definition of Cirrus
1. Noun. Usually coiled.
2. Noun. A wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles).
3. Noun. A slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile.
Definition of Cirrus
1. n. A tendril or clasper.
Definition of Cirrus
1. Noun. (botany) A tendril. ¹
2. Noun. (zoology) A thin tendril-like appendage. ¹
3. Noun. (meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type characterised by white, delicate filaments or wisps, of white (or mostly white) patches, or of narrow bands, found at an altitude of above 7000 metres. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cirrus
1. a tendril or similar part [n -RI]
Medical Definition of Cirrus
1. A structure formed from a cluster or tuft of fused cilia, constituting one of the sensory or locomotor organs of certain ciliate protozoa. Origin: L. A curl (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cirrus
Literary usage of Cirrus
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) (1890)
"points the cirrus fibres were undergoing no change or were perhaps slowly dissolving.
When the observations were begun the ends of the cirrus bands scarcely ..."
2. Weather: A Popular Exposition of the Nature of Weather Changes from Day to Day by Ralph Abercromby (1887)
"When the cirrus was first observed, Denmark was under the influence of the rear
of a cyclone, rather than of the wedge, which lay a little farther to the ..."
3. Bulletin by Mount Weather Observatory, Bluemont, Va, United States Weather Bureau (1910)
"AN UNUSUAL DISPLAY OF FALSE cirrus. By WJ HUMPHREYS. On the afternoon of May 27,
1909, there appeared to the north of Washington, DC, ..."
4. Elements of Meteorology, with Questions for Examination, Designed for by John Brocklesby (1869)
"cirrus OR CURL CLOUD. This cloud is so called, from the Latin word cirrus or curl,
... After a period of fine weather, slender filaments of the cirrus are ..."
5. A Treatise on Meteorology: With a Collection of Meteorological Tables by Elias Loomis (1868)
"Classification of Clouds—cirrus.—Clouds present an infinite variety of forms,
... The cirrus cloud consists of long, slender filaments, either parallel or ..."
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