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Cirrus   /sˈɪrəs/   Listen
Cirrus

noun
(pl. cirri)  (Also written cirrhus)
1.
Usually coiled.  Synonym: cirrhus.
2.
A wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles).  Synonym: cirrus cloud.
3.
A slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile.






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"Cirrus" Quotes from Famous Books



... blue, then deeper and deeper blue, until the shadow swallowed it up. But down below, right on the Heiberg Glacier, its ice-covered side was exposed — dark and solemn the mountain mass stood out. Mount Engelstad lay in shadow, but on its summit rested a beautiful light little cirrus cloud, red with an edge of gold. Down over its side the blocks of ice lay scattered pell-mell. And farther down on the east rose Don Pedro Christophersen, partly in shadow, partly gleaming in the sun ...
— The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 • Roald Amundsen

... water.] Bubble [Cloud.] — N. 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. [Science of clouds] nephelognosy^; nephograph^, nephology^. effervescence, fermentation; bubbling &c v.. nebula; cloudliness &c (opacity) 426 [Obs.]; nebulosity &c ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget



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



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