cirrus

1. 1.

   usually coiled

   Synonymscirrhus

   Broadertendril
2. 2.

   a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles)

   Synonymscirrus cloud

   Broadercloud

   Narrowermare's tail
3. 3.

   a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile

   Broaderprocess

Other forms of cirrus

plural

cirri

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cirrus

What does cirrus mean?

cirrus means "usually coiled". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cirrus?

cirrus has 2 syllables: cir-rus. The stress falls on "cir". In IPA it is /ˈsɪɹəs/.

What is another word for cirrus?

Close synonyms include cirrhus, cirrus cloud. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cirrus a common word?

cirrus is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.