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plural cirri
(botany) A tendril. examples
(zoology) A thin tendril-like appendage.
(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. quotations
He looked at the sky and saw the white cumulus built like friendly piles of ice cream and high above where the thin feathers of the cirrus against the high September sky.
1952, Ernest Hemingway, The old man and the sea, Harper Perennial classics, published 2014, page 282
The blue sky is glossy and fat with heat, a few thin cirri sheared to blown strands like hair at the rims.
1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, page 15