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Cirri vs Cirrous - What's the difference?

cirri | cirrous |

As a noun cirri

is plural of cirrus Tendrils or claspers.

As an adjective cirrous is

pertaining to cirri; having filaments, fibrous.

cirri

English

Noun

(head)
  • (botany) Tendrils or claspers.
  • (zoology) Grouped cilia that function as "legs" in certain species of protists.

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    cirrous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (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.