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CIRRUS

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

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

cirrus; cirrus cloud

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

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:

Usually coiledplay

Synonyms:

cirrhus; cirrus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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