Usually means: High-altitude, wispy, ice-crystal clouds.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word cirrus:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. cirrus: Merriam-Webster
  2. cirrus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cirrus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cirrus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cirrus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cirrus, cirrus: Wordnik
  7. cirrus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cirrus: Wiktionary
  9. cirrus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cirrus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cirrus: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cirrus: Dictionary.com
  13. cirrus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Cirrus (Helsinki building), Cirrus (album), Cirrus (band), Cirrus (biology), Cirrus (building), Cirrus (disambiguation), Cirrus (interbank network), Cirrus (song), Cirrus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cirrus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cirrus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cirrus: Rhymezone
  18. Cirrus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cirrus: FreeDictionary.org
  20. cirrus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. cirrus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. cirrus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cirrus (organ), cirrus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cirrus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Cirrus (organ), cirrus: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CIRRUS: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cirrus: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cirrus: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See cirri as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (botany) A tendril.
noun:  (zoology) A thin tendril-like appendage.
noun:  (meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type characterised by white, delicate filaments or wisps, of white (or mostly white) patches, or of narrow bands, found at an altitude of above 7000 metres.

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