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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

(Bot.)

Cirrose.

(Zool.)

Tufted; – said of certain feathers of birds.

Adj.

Terminating in a cirrus, curl or tendril; as a cirrous leaf.

cirrous ‎(comparative more cirrous, superlative most cirrous)

(botany, zoology) Pertaining to cirri; having filaments, fibrous.
- 1658, And Ivy divided from the root, we have observed to live some years, by the cirrous parts commonly conceived but as tenacles and holdfasts unto it. — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 198)
Pertaining to cirrus clouds.