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US
/ˈsɪɹəs/
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[ UK /sˈɪɹəs/ ]
[ UK /sˈɪɹəs/ ]
NOUN
- 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
- usually coiled
How To Use cirrus In A Sentence
- Howard's full range of terms was: cirrus (for clouds made up of ‘parallel, flexuous, or dividing fibres’); cumulus (for convex or conical heaps, building upwards from a horizontal base); and stratus, horizontal sheets of cloud.
- Durand-Greville in _La Nature_, November 24, 1900, that Lamarck was the first to observe the so-called pocky or festoon cloud, or mammato-cirrus cloud, which at rare intervals has been observed since his time. [ Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
- I admit there was a time when I didn't know a cirrus from a cumulus and sincerely believed that a lenticularis was a luxury car from Toyota. Toronto Sun
- Do observe those wispy cirrus clouds, Jennifer, like writing in the sky... ` NO BODY
- Cirrus fibratus (center) and Cirrus uncinus (bottom). WN.com - Business News
- I lay on the bed and watched cirrus clouds drift slowly across the sky.
- Only at the highest levels—up to 45,000 feet—do we find the ice-crystal clouds cirrus ("like white locks of hair"), cirrocumulus ("like grains of rice") and cirrostratus ("a light, milky whitening of the blue"). Cirrus Concerns
- As shown by Fryda and Blodgett, the shell characters of Alaskacirrus fit well with the diagnosis of the family Cirridae Cossmann, 1916, as emended by Bandel.
- High-altitude clouds—cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus—reside between three and seven miles above sea level. MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
- The basic cloud forms are cumulus, which are heaped clouds; stratus, which are layer clouds; and cirrus, which are wispy.