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1. (n.) cirrus
a high-altitude cloud composed of ice crystals and characterized by thin white filaments or narrow bands.
2. cirrus
a tendril.
3. cirrus
a filament or slender appendage serving as a foot, tentacle, barbel, etc.
4. cirrus
the male copulatory organ of flatworms and various invertebrates.
Etymology: (1700–10; < L: a curl, tuft, plant filament)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) cirrus, cirrhus
usually coiled
2. (noun) cirrus, cirrus cloud
a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles)
3. (noun) cirrus
a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) cirrus
a tendril or clasper
2. (noun) cirrus
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
3. (noun) cirrus
the jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychaeta
4. (noun) cirrus
the external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca
5. (noun) cirrus
see under Cloud
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