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CIRRUS (cirri)

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Irregular inflected form: cirri  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does cirrus mean? 

CIRRUS (noun)
  The noun CIRRUS has 3 senses:

1. usually coiledplay

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

3. a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactileplay

  Familiarity information: CIRRUS used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


CIRRUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Usually coiled

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cirrhus; cirrus

Hypernyms ("cirrus" is a kind of...):

tendril (slender stem-like structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support)


Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

cirrus; cirrus cloud

Hypernyms ("cirrus" is a kind of...):

cloud (a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cirrus"):

mare's tail (a long narrow flowing cirrus cloud)


Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cirrus" is a kind of...):

appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)


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