Cirrus

Definitions

1. A tendril.
2. A thin tendril-like appendage.
3. A principal high-level cloud type, typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments, wisps, or narrow bands.

Equivalents

Examples

“Cirrus clouds moving from the southwest indicate⟳ falling temperature; moving from the northwest they indicate⟳ the probability of rising temperature.”

“He looked at the sky and saw⟳ the white cumulus built like⟳ friendly piles of ice cream and high above where the thin feathers of the cirrus against the high September sky.”

“The blue sky is glossy and fat with heat, a few thin cirri sheared to blown strands like⟳ hair at the rims.”

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