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Filaments vs Cirrous - What's the difference?

filaments | cirrous |

As a noun filaments

is .

As an adjective cirrous is

(botany|zoology) pertaining to cirri; having filaments, fibrous.

filaments

English

Noun

(head)

    • 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.