cirrus

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Cirrus cloud

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From Latin cirrus (“curl”).

A sky filled with cirrus clouds

cirrus (plural cirri)

tendril

cirrus (plural cirruses)

(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.

cloud

Chinese: 卷雲, 卷云 (juǎnyún)
Dutch: windveer, cirrus, vederwolk
Hungarian: pehelyfelhő (hu)
Icelandic: klósigar (is) m. pl., blikutrefjar (is) f. pl., blikufjaðrir (is) f. pl., vatnsklær (is) f. pl.