Definitions
a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile
Word origin
Learned borrowing from Latin cirrus (“curl; fringe of clothes; mane (especially forelock) of a horse; etc”); further etymology unknown.
Used in a sentence
“Cirri are taken for thoſe fine Strings, or Hairs, by vvhich ſome Plants faſten themſelves, in order to their Support in creeping along; as Ivy, &c.”
“Each foot is divided into two parts, one dorsal, the other ventral, and each part has a bundle of subulate bristles and a cirrus.”
“He looked at the sky and saw the white cumulus built like friendly piles of ice cream and high above where the thin feathers of the cirrus against the high September sky.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“High wispy cloud”6 letters
02“Wispy cloud type”6 letters
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