Canadian English Meaning of cirrus

Cirrus clouds

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Definitions and Meaning of cirrus in English

Wordnet

cirrus (n)

usually coiled

a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles)

a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile

Webster

cirrus (n.)

A tendril or clasper.

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.

The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychaeta.

The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca.

See under Cloud.

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Cirrus clouds

usually coiled, a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles), a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or cri

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cirrous => cirrus, cirrostratus cloud => Cirrostratus cloud, cirro-stratus => Cirrostratus, cirrostratus => Cirrostratus, cirrostomi => Roundmouths,