cirrousadj.
/ˈsɪrəs/, U.S. /ˈsɪrəs/ΚΠ
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Cirrous, belonging to curled hair.
1681 Blount's Glossographia (ed. 5) Cirrous, belonging to curled hair or to any hairy substance.
2. Botany and Zoology. Of the nature of a cirrus or cirri; bearing cirri, filamentous.
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the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [adjective] > having tendrils
pampina1398
cirrous1658
capreolate1737
tendrilled1806
cirriferous1813
cirrose1813
tendrilly1863
tendriliferous1900
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [adjective] > slender or pointed > filamentary > having hair-like part
cirrous1836–9
cirrose1851
cirrated1854
cirrigerous1856
cirriferous1869
chaetigerous1896
1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iv, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 164 The cirrous parts [of Ivy] commonly conceived but as tenacles and holdfasts unto it.
1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. iv. 385 Cirrhous, terminated by a spiral, or flexuose, filiform appendage.
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 30/2 The dorsal rays simple, filiform, cirrhous.
3. Of or pertaining to cirrus-clouds.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [adjective] > of or relating to cirrus
cirriform1813
cirrose1813
cirrous1813
1813 T. I. M. Forster Res. Atmosph. Phænom. ii. 50 A sky full of cirrous streaks.
1816 Monthly Mag. 42 35 The cirrous clouds have a bristly..look.
1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton v. 53 The clouds..had parted into long cirrhous lines.
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