Meaning of Cirrus | Babel Free

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.

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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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