1) Big beat group 2) Biological nomenclature 3) Canadian mountain 4) Cirrhus 5) Electronic music duo 6) Filmy variety of cloud 7) Fleecy cloud 8) High cloud 9) High cloud type 10) High-altitude cloud 11) High, wispy cloud 12) Ice-crystal cloud 13) Mount of North America 14) Mountain in North America
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1) Cirrhus 2) Cloud 3) Ice cloud
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- usually coiled
- a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles)
- a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile
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singular of cirri (see above)
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[biology] A cirrus (pronounced s, `{Respell|SEER|əs}`, plural cirri, aɪ, `{Respell|SEER|eye}`), from the Latin cirrus meaning a curl-like tuft or fringe, is a term used in biology and zoology for a number of long, thin structures in both vertebrate and invertebrate animals. In the sheep liver fluke, for example, the cirrus is the worm`s m...
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[crinoid] A cirrus (plural cirri) is an articulated appendage projecting from an ossicle that forms part of the stalk of a crinoid. In sea lilies the stem forms a permanent attachment round which the cirri are arranged in whorls. The lowermost ones form a holdfast attaching the sea lily to the substrate. During the development of comatulid ...
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[rocket] The Cirrus is a sounding rocket with two stages, developed by the `Hermann Oberth Society`. Its first launch was on September 16, 1961. The maximum height of the Cirrus, depending on the version, is 35 kilometres or 50 kilometres. A Cirrus rocket is exhibited at the Hermann Oberth Space Travel Museum in Feucht, Germany. ...
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High clouds, usually above 18,000 feet, composed of ice crystals.
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(Ci) A principal high-level cloud type (cloud genus), appearing as a detached clouds in the form of white, delicate filaments or white or mostly white patches or narrow bands. These clouds have a fibrous (hair-like) appearance, or a silky sheen, or both. Because cirrus elements are too narrow, they do not produce a complete circular halo.
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• (n.) A tendril or clasper. • (n.) See under Cloud. • (n.) The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca. • (n.) The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychaeta. • (n.) A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Th...
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(from the article `barnacle`) ...and are cemented, head down, to rocks, pilings, ships` hulls, driftwood, or seaweed, or to the bodies of larger sea creatures, from clams to ...
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(from the article `ciliate`) ...(cell mouth) of some species to form membranelles or undulating membranes (various sheetlike or fan-shaped groupings of cilia); elsewhere on the ... ...even they have evolved considerable variation on the cilia-covered cell. In some species (e.g., the hypotrich Euplotes) the cilia are combined to ... [...
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(from the article `cloud`) ...The eight main cloud families are divided into three groups on the basis of altitude. High clouds, which are found at mean heights above the ... a. Cirrus[2 related articles]
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filament-lie projections that are sometimes present on the head, fins, nape, nostril, lateral line, etc. of some species.
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A structure formed from a cluster or tuft of fused cilia, constituting one of the sensory or locomotor organs of certain ciliate protozoa. ... Origin: L. A curl ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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High clouds, usually above 18,000 feet, composed of ice crystals and appearing in the form of white, delicate filaments or white or mostly white patches or narrow bands.
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A gelatinous mass of extruded spores. Penis or copulatory organ of a flatworm.
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Cir'rus noun ;
plural Cirri . [ Latin , lock, curl, ringlet.] [ Also written
cirrhus .]
1. (Botany) A tendril or clasper.
2. (Zoology) (a) A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those...
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The Schempp-Hirth Cirrus was a German single-seat high-performance sailplane first flown in 1967. The Schempp-Hirth Cirrus was a mid-wing cantilever monoplane of mainly glass-fibre construction and a top speed of 250 kmh in smooth air.
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A principal cloud type present at high altitudes above 18,000 feet and composed of ice crystals.
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singular of cirri (see above)
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cirrus (s), cirri (pl) 1. A thin wispy cloud, occurring as narrow bands of tiny ice particles, that forms at the highest and coldest point of the cloud region. 2. A slender tentacle with sensory or locomotive function, or a part resembling one. 3. A filament or slender appendage serving as a foot, tentacle, barbel, etc. 4. The male copula...
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a principal high-level cloud type (cloud genus), appearing as detached clouds in the form of white, delicate filaments or white or mostly white patches or narrow bands; these clouds have a fibrous (hair-like) appearance, or a silky sheen, or both; because cirrus elements are too narrow, they do not produce a complete circular halo.
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noun a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile
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A principal cloud type present at high altitudes, generally above 7000 metres, and composed of ice crystals. Cirrus comes from the Latin term for 'curl or wisp of hair.'
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