cirri
noun
a plural of cirrus.
cirri
1 American
[sir-ahy]
/ ˈsɪr aɪ /
noun
Botany, Zoology.
cirri-
2
American
cirri
British
/ ˈsɪraɪ /
noun
Example Sentences
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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 Thomas Belden Butler
All the five posterior pair of cirri resemble each other more closely than is usual.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
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
Spines on the upper segments of the posterior cirri, arranged in three or four approximate longitudinal rows, making small brushes.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
But if the procession of the cirri has some continuity and broadens to the western horizon it is a sign about eight times in ten that a cyclone is approaching.
From Reading the Weather by Thomas Morris Longstreth
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