cir|rus

cir|rus
cir|rus «SIHR uhs», noun, plural cir|ri.
1. a thin, fleecy white cloud of ice crystals formed very high in the air. It gives the appearance of diverging filaments or wisps, and often resembles curls or locks of hair or wool.
2. Zoology. any one of various slender or filamentary processes or appendages, such as: a) one of those about the mouth of a barnacle. b) a barbel of certain fishes. c) one of the small, armlike processes of a crinoid, growing from the cup-shaped head.
3. a group of hairlike processes on the appendages of certain insects.
4. Botany. a tendril.
╂[< Latin cirrus curl]

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