Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cirrus

3 senses of cirrus

Sense 1
cirrus, cirrhus -- (usually coiled)
       => tendril -- (slender stem-like structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support)

Sense 2
cirrus, cirrus cloud -- (a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles))
       => cloud -- (a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude)

Sense 3
cirrus -- (a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile)
       => process, outgrowth, appendage -- (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process")