Cirrus

Pronunciation

IPA: /ËˆsÉªÉ¹É™s/
Rhymes: -ÉªrÉ™s

Origin

From Latin cirrus ("curl").

Full definition of cirrus

Noun

cirrus

(plural cirri)

(botany) A tendril.
(zoology) A thin tendril-like appendage.
(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.

1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Abacus 2013, p. 15:The blue sky is glossy and fat with heat, a few thin cirri sheared to blown strands like hair at the rims.