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cirrhus
[ sir-uhs ]
noun
- a mucus-bound ribbonlike mass of spores that is exuded from a fungus.
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
White cirrhus clouds now darted out here and there ahead, like fluttering standards of warning.
Gasping for a breath of cooler air, we watched the sun go down, but there was no sign of wind, no promise of movement in the faint, vapoury cirrhus that attended his setting.
Ark is also the name of a mare's-tail cloud, or cirrhus, when it forms a streak across the sky.
Just then the moon getting clear of some cirrhus clouds, and shining brighter than ever, lights up an object hitherto unnoticed by him, but one he recognises as an old acquaintance.
The brigade was now upon the Front Royal and Winchester pike, moving in the foot and wheel prints of the advance, and under and through an extended cirrhus cloud of dirty saffron.
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