单词 | cirrous |
释义 | cirrousadj.ΚΠ 1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Cirrous, belonging to curled hair. 1681 Blount's Glossographia (ed. 5) Cirrous, belonging to curled hair or to any hairy substance. 2. Botany and Zoology. Of the nature of a cirrus or cirri; bearing cirri, filamentous. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [adjective] > having tendrils pampina1398 cirrous1658 capreolate1737 tendrilled1806 cirriferous1813 cirrose1813 tendrilly1863 tendriliferous1900 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [adjective] > slender or pointed > filamentary > having hair-like part cirrous1836–9 cirrose1851 cirrated1854 cirrigerous1856 cirriferous1869 chaetigerous1896 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iv, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 164 The cirrous parts [of Ivy] commonly conceived but as tenacles and holdfasts unto it. 1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. iv. 385 Cirrhous, terminated by a spiral, or flexuose, filiform appendage. 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 30/2 The dorsal rays simple, filiform, cirrhous. 3. Of or pertaining to cirrus-clouds. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [adjective] > of or relating to cirrus cirriform1813 cirrose1813 cirrous1813 1813 T. I. M. Forster Res. Atmosph. Phænom. ii. 50 A sky full of cirrous streaks. 1816 Monthly Mag. 42 35 The cirrous clouds have a bristly..look. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton v. 53 The clouds..had parted into long cirrhous lines. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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