cirrhus

American  

[sir-uhs] / ˈsɪr əs /

noun

Mycology.

plural

cirrhi

1. a mucus-bound ribbonlike mass of spores that is exuded from a fungus.

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Etymology

Origin of cirrhus

< New Latin, a pseudo-Greek form of Latin cirrus cirrus

Example Sentences

Ark is also the name of a mare's-tail cloud, or cirrhus, when it forms a streak across the sky.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

White cirrhus clouds now darted out here and there ahead, like fluttering standards of warning.

From A Republic Without a President and Other Stories by Ward, Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson)

The gold on Skiddaw was passing into rose; and over the greenish blue of the lower sky, webs of crimson cirrhus spun themselves.

From The Mating of Lydia by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

The brigade was now upon the Front Royal and Winchester pike, moving in the foot and wheel prints of the advance, and under and through an extended cirrhus cloud of dirty saffron.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

Just then the moon getting clear of some cirrhus clouds, and shining brighter than ever, lights up an object hitherto unnoticed by him, but one he recognises as an old acquaintance.

From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by Tilney, F.C.