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noun

Cirrus n. (pl. cirri) (Also written cirrhus)

(Bot.) A tendril or clasper.

(Zool.)

(a)

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.

(b)

The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychaeta. Note: In some of the inferior animals the cirri aid in locomotion; in others they are used in feeding; in the Annelida they are mostly organs of touch. Some cirri are branchial in function.

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

(Meteor.) See under Cloud.

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Etymology of 'Cirrus'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... conscious that some great power was before me. Across a vast, irregular disc filled with the ashy whiteness of the outer twilight, strange, unaccountable forms, misty and undefined, passed, and repassed, and vanished. Cirrus they might have been, or the shadows flung by homing flights of birds; but of this I could not be certain. As the dusk deepened they showed no more, and presently I gazed only into a ...

— At a Winter's Fire • Bernard Edward J. Capes

... this land, while Britain still belonged to the British, and King Arthur held his court in Tintagel's halls, there was a goodly land, named Lethowsow or the Lionesse, extending a distance of thirty miles between this cape and yonder shadowy islets which seem to float like cirrus clouds on the horizon. It is said that this land of Lionesse was rich and fertile, supporting many hundreds of families, with large flocks and herds. There were no fewer than forty churches upon it, from which it follows that there must have been a considerable ...

— Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines • R.M. Ballantyne

... not satisfactory with so short an epoch as our stay at Mount Hooper, when change in altitude is so slow. Beyond working out the sights I did really nothing. Temperature at 8 p.m. 7 degrees, Wind South-West 3-4. Cirrus clouds radiating from S.W. Minimum ...

— South with Scott • Edward R. G. R. Evans

... of the cloud Join with the nucleus form, Cirrus to Nimbus quickly bowed— Sure harbinger ...

— Our Profession and Other Poems • Jared Barhite

... the fragments of the cloud Join with the nucleus form, Cirrus to Nimbus quickly bowed— Sure ...

— Our Profession and Other Poems • Jared Barhite