a. Erroneously cirrhose. [f. L. type *cirrōs-us, f. cirrus: see -OSE.]

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  1.  a. Zool. Furnished with cirri. b. Bot. Bearing a tendril.

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1819.  Pantologia, Cirrose Leaf … terminating in a cirrus or tendril.

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1854.  Woodward, Mollusca (1856), 67. Octopus—Body oval, warty or cirrose, without fins.

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1870.  Bentley, Bot., 174. Any part of the leaf may also become cirrhose or transformed into a tendril.

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  2.  Meteor. Of the nature of cirrus clouds.

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1814.  Millard, Time’s Telesc., 341. A dense black mass, with a cirrose crown extending from the top.

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1815.  T. Forster, Res. Atmosph. Phenom., ii. § 17. 89. The nimbus … may be considered as having its base on the earth, and its summit at the end of the fibres of its cirrose crown.

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