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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



... making a splash of faint pure colour against the blonde whiteness of her dress. Ralph could just catch the golden shimmer of her hair. He knew but he could not see how it crisped and tendrilled about her brow, and how the light wind blew it into little cirrus wisps of sun-flossed gold. The thought that for long he should see it no more was even harder than parting. It is the hard things on this earth that are the easiest to do. The great renunciation is easy, but it is infinitely ...
— The Lilac Sunbonnet • S.R. Crockett
... seemed to contract into patches. Again the change seemed to proceed from the south. The clouds seemed to lift still higher, and to shrink into small, light, feathery cirrus clouds, silvery on the dark blue sky—resembling white pencil shadings. The light of the moon asserted itself anew. And this metamorphosis also spread upward, till the moon herself looked out again, and it went on spreading northward till it covered the ...
— Over Prairie Trails • Frederick Philip Grove


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


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