cirrus
pronunciation
How to pronounce cirrus in British English:
UK [ˈsɪrəs]
How to pronounce cirrus in American English:
US ['sɪrəs]
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- Noun:
- usually coiled
- a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles)
- a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile
Word Origin
- cirrus (n.)
- 1708, "curl-like fringe or tuft," from Latin cirrus "a lock of hair, tendril, curl, ringlet of hair; the fringe of a garment." In meteorology, cirrus clouds attested from 1803. So called from fancied resemblance of shape.
Example
- 1. They are the first cirrus clouds seen on an outer planet .
- 2. He saw this splendidly illuminated cirrus cloud floating quickly on the wind while climbing one evening in the buttermilk region of california 's eastern sierra nevada .
- 3. In february , a subsidiary of a state-owned chinese company bought cirrus industries , a minnesota manufacturer of small aircraft .
- 4. The most beautiful cloud is cirrus .
- 5. You can no longer use your neteller card on the cirrus network or outside of canada .