Definitions for Cirri

Cirri cir·ri

Spelling: [sir-ahy]
IPA: /ˈsɪr aɪ/

Cirri is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in Cirri (ciirr).

Definitions for Cirri

noun

  1. a plural of cirrus.
  2. 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.
  3. Botany. a tendril.
  4. 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 Cirri

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

Examples for Cirri

In very young specimens, the cirri are only barred with purple.

Some are close-packed and dense, like cumuli; some are wispy or mottled, like cirri.

In the higher regions of the air we look for the cirri, the Curl Clouds.

The pedicels of all the cirri are thickly covered with bristles.

Pedicels of the cirri not particularly protuberant in front.

The motile organs are cirri and cilia, all inserted in the constriction.

If the cumulus be the only cloud at first visible, its upper part is seen to become tufted with cirri.

His cello pieces, of which several were published, are as obsolete as those of cirri.

The cirri not rarely get cut off, but are, as it appears, soon repaired.

People don't know what cirri are, at least not one out of fifty readers.

Word Value for Cirri
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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