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Meanings of cirrus in English
Articulated appendage projecting from an ossicle that forms part of the stalk of a crinoid.
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Examples for "cirri"
Examples for "cirri"
1
The motile organs are cirri and cilia, all inserted in the constriction.
2
In the figure given by Quennerstedt there are only 7 ventral cirri.
3
The cirri emerge from minute hollows in the edge of the anterior border.
4
The contractile vacuole lies on the right side dorsal to the posterior cirri.
5
One or more rings of cirri rise in the groove.
Usage of cirrus in English
1
Yes, he had filibustered about the differences between cirrus and stratus accumulations.
2
The night was calm and clear, with faint cirrus, but no dew.
3
Another interesting phenomenon observed to-day was a cirrus cloud lit by sunlight.
4
A blue sky with fluffy white cirrus clouds stretched in every direction.
5
They were soon lost in the cirrus, bound for Line Top.
6
Bars of cirrus clouds covered the whole sky-thepresage of a coming storm.
7
He looked up and saw the blue sky above fretted with cirrus clouds.
8
The moon was just overhead, ringed round with a field of cirrus clouds.
9
They must be cruising somewhere up above those thin cirrus clouds.
10
With only a few strands of cirrus high overhead, the sun shone brightly.
11
The eighth cirrus is by itself, near the base of the largest posterior cirrus.
12
As the exact opposite of this we have the cirrus.
13
Those high cirrus causing shadows near the north polar cap?
14
Slender sheaves of cirrus clouds were followed on the horizon by layers of nimbocumulus.
15
The sun was then seen shining through cirrus far up.
16
A few white wisps of cirrus gleamed above our heads.
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