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• cirri
  cirri

  noun

  a plural of cirrus.
• cirri-
  cirri-

  variant of cirro-.

cirri

¹ American  

[sir-ahy] / ˈsɪr aɪ /

noun

Botany, Zoology.

1. a plural of cirrus.

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cirri- ² American  

1. variant of cirro-.

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cirri British  

/ ˈsɪraɪ /

noun

1. the plural of cirrus

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Example Sentences

Condensation in the whole body of the trade is usually in the form of turbidness or mistiness, a bank or incipient stratus, without cirri.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden

Si cirri raduntur, humor ille et virus in corpus relabitur, et affectos, ut supra scriptum est, torquet; caput, manus, pedes, omnes artus, omnes juncturas, omnes corporis partes exagitat.”

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

Pedicels of the first four cirri, caudal appendages, penis, the two posterior thoracic segments, the segments of the cirri, and the trophi, clouded, banded, or spotted, with blackish purple.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

Gibbula, with jaws, three pairs of epipodial cirri without pigment spots at their bases, British.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various

The observer must watch the formation of cirri, and the different forms of cirro-stratus and stratus, and become familiar with their appearance.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden