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Citrus vs Cirrus - What's the difference?

citrus | cirrus |

As nouns the difference between citrus and cirrus

is that citrus is any of several shrubs or trees of the family Rutaceae while cirrus is a tendril.

As an adjective citrus

is of or relating to citrus plants or fruit.

citrus

English

(wikipedia citrus)

Noun

(es)
  • Any of several shrubs or trees of the family Rutaceae.
  • The fruit of such plants, generally spherical, oblate, or prolate, consisting of an outer glandular skin called zest, an inner white skin, and generally between 8 and 16 sectors filled with pulp consisting of cells with one end attached to the inner skin. Citrus fruits include orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, and citron.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to citrus plants or fruit.

    • Anagrams

    * * * English refractory feminine rhymes

    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.