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# cirrus

«cirrus» in Mova's school dictionary: **a thin, wispy, white cloud high up in the sky, made of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (cirrus, cirrus clouds; plural cirri)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Cirrus is a thin, wispy, white cloud high up in the sky, made of tiny ice crystals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cirrus/#m1)

2) Cirrus clouds can look like feathers or horses' tails. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cirrus/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons on weather, cirrus is one of the main cloud types: high and thin. They often mean fair weather, but can show that the weather will change in a day or so. The word comes from Latin for a curl of hair.

### examples

- Thin cirrus clouds streaked across the blue sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cirrus/#x1)
- Cirrus clouds are made of ice crystals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cirrus/#x2)
- Cirrus clouds are the highest common clouds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cirrus/#x3)
- Some people call cirrus clouds «mares' tails». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cirrus/#x4)
- Draw a cirrus cloud on your weather chart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cirrus/#x5)
- Cirrus clouds can mean the weather will change soon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cirrus/#x6)

### note

A science word; usually used as «cirrus clouds». Compare: cumulus (fluffy heaps), stratus (flat grey layers), cumulonimbus (tall storm clouds).

### In the corpora

- [Cirrus clouds are thin wispy clouds of ice high in the sky.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/67-clouds-rain-snow-hail/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cirrus» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cirrus/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.