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cirrous, a.|ˈsɪrəs|
Erroneously cirrhous.
[f. L. cirr-us curl + -ous: corresp. to F. cirreux.]
†1. lit. (see quot.)
1681Blount Glossogr., Cirrous, belonging to curled hair or to any hairy substance. 1692in Coles.
2. Bot. and Zool. Of the nature of a cirrus or cirri; bearing cirri, filamentous.
1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus iv, The cirrous parts [of Ivy] commonly conceived but as tenacles and hold-fasts unto it. 1835Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) II. 356 Cirrhous; terminated by a spiral, or flexuose, filiform appendage. 1836–9Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 30/2 The dorsal rays simple, filiform, cirrhous.
3. Of or pertaining to cirrus-clouds.
1815T. Forster Res. Atmosph. Phenom. ii. §1. 51 A sky full of cirrous streaks. 1816Month. Mag. XLII. 35 The cirrous clouds have a bristly..look. 1872Black Adv. Ph. v. 53 The clouds..had parted into long cirrhous lines. |