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.
Origin
From Latin cirrus ("curl").
Image:CirrusField-color.jpg|thumb|A sky filled with cirrus clouds
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