Cirrus clouds are thin, wispy clouds that form high in the atmosphere as their water vapor freezes into ice crystals. Cirrus is one of the principal types of clouds.
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Cirrus
//ˈsɪɹəs//
Synonyms for "cirrus" (99 found)
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53 translations across 32 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- طَخَاء noun (cloud)
Asturian
1 entries- cirru noun (cloud)
Bulgarian
2 entries- ластар noun (tendril)
- перест облак noun (cloud)
Catalan
3 entries- circell noun (tendril)
- cirrus noun (tendril)
- cirrus noun (cloud)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 卷雲 /卷云 noun (cloud)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 卷雲 /卷云 noun (cloud)
Czech
2 entries- úponek noun (tendril)
- řasa noun (cloud)
Dutch
3 entries- cirrus noun (cloud)
- vederwolk noun (cloud)
- windveer noun (cloud)
Esperanto
2 entries- ciruso noun (cloud)
- ĉiro noun (tendril)
Estonian
3 entries- kiudpilv noun (cloud)
- köitraag noun (tendril)
- väänel noun (tendril)
Finnish
2 entries- cirrus noun (cloud)
- cirruspilvi noun (cloud)
French
1 entries- cirrus noun (cloud)
Galician
2 entries- cirro noun (tendril)
- cirro noun (cloud)
German
2 entries- Cirruswolke noun (cloud)
- Federwolke noun (cloud)
Greek
1 entries- θύσανος noun (cloud)
Hindi
1 entries- पक्षाभ noun (cloud)
Hungarian
1 entries- pehelyfelhő noun (cloud)
Icelandic
4 entries- blikufjaðrir noun (cloud)
- blikutrefjar noun (cloud)
- klósigar noun (cloud)
- vatnsklær noun (cloud)
Italian
1 entries- cirro noun (cloud)
Japanese
2 entries- すじ雲 noun (cloud)
- 巻雲 noun (cloud)
Korean
1 entries- 권운 noun (cloud)
Latin
2 entries- cirrus noun (cloud)
- nubes cirra noun (cloud)
Latvian
1 entries- spalvu mākonis noun (cloud)
Macedonian
1 entries- цирус noun (cloud)
Māori
3 entries- iorangi noun (cloud)
- pūrehurehu noun (cloud)
- pūrerehu noun (cloud)
Navajo
1 entries- kʼos áłtʼą́ą́ʼí noun (cloud)
Polish
2 entries- chmura pierzasta noun (cloud)
- cirrus noun (cloud)
Portuguese
2 entries- cirro noun (tendril)
- cirro noun (cloud)
Russian
1 entries- пе́ристая noun (cloud)
Spanish
1 entries- cirro noun (cloud)
Tagalog
1 entries- ruruking alapaap noun (cloud)
Vietnamese
1 entries- mây ti noun (cloud)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Cirrus clouds moving from the southwest indicate falling temperature; moving from the northwest they indicate the probability of rising temperature.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
The blue sky is glossy and fat with heat, a few thin cirri sheared to blown strands like hair at the rims.
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