Associations to the word «Cirrus»

Wiktionary

CIRRUS, noun. (botany) A tendril.
CIRRUS, noun. (zoology) A thin tendril-like appendage.
CIRRUS, noun. (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.

Dictionary definition

CIRRUS, noun. Usually coiled.
CIRRUS, noun. A wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles).
CIRRUS, noun. A slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile.

Wise words

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras