Definitions for cirrus

• Definition
• Anagrams (58)

cirrus cir·rus

Spelling: [sir-uh s]

IPA: /ˈsɪr əs/

Cirrus is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in cirrus (cirrsu).

Definitions for cirrus

noun

1. Meteorology. a cloud of a class characterized by thin white filaments or narrow bands and a composition of ice crystals: of high altitude, about 20,000–40,000 feet (6000–12,000 meters). a cirriform cloud.
2. Botany. a tendril.
3. Zoology. a filament or slender appendage serving as a foot, tentacle, barbel, etc. the male copulatory organ of flatworms and various other invertebrates.

Origin of cirrus

1700-10; Latin: a curl, tuft, plant filament like a tuft of hair

Examples for cirrus

The cirrus may last a few minutes only, or continue for hours.

cirrus clouds, or others, dissolve, or cirrus have tails down.

There must be text-books on how to tell the cumuli from the cirrus.

The cirrus—so called from its resemblance to a curled lock of hair.

Soon the ship looked, to all outward appearances, like a cirrus formation.

The rami of the first cirrus are a little unequal in length.

We will not say whether the old masters painted this cirrus or not.

The third cirrus is about one third longer than the second cirrus.

This is the cirro-stratus, and is a development of the cirrus, but it does not fly so high.

In the sixth cirrus there are on each segment four pairs of spines.