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Cirrus vs Cirrhus - What's the difference?

cirrus | cirrhus |

As nouns the difference between cirrus and cirrhus

is that cirrus is (botany) a tendril while cirrhus is .

cirrus

English

(cirrus cloud)

Noun

(cirri)
  • (botany) A tendril.
  • (zoology) A thin tendril-like appendage.
  • (meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type characterised by white, delicate filaments or wisps, of white (or mostly white) patches, or of narrow bands, found at an altitude of above 7000 metres.
  • * 1996 , (David Foster Wallace), Infinite Jest , Abacus 2013, p. 15:
    • The blue sky is glossy and fat with heat, a few thin cirri sheared to blown strands like hair at the rims.

    cirrhus

    English

    Noun

    (cirrhi)
    • (Webster 1913)