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Definition of 'cirrus'English
(cirrus cloud)
Noun
( cirri)
(botany) A tendril.
(zoology) A thin tendril-like appendage.
(meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type characterised by white, delicate filaments or wisps, of white (or mostly white) patches, or of narrow bands, found at an altitude of above 7000 metres.
* 1996 , (David Foster Wallace), Infinite Jest , Abacus 2013, p. 15:
- The blue sky is glossy and fat with heat, a few thin cirri sheared to blown strands like hair at the rims.
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