cirrose, a.
(sɪˈrəʊs)
Erroneously cirrhose.
[f. L. type *cirrōs-us, f. cirrus: see -ose.]
1. a. Zool. Furnished with cirri. b. Bot. Bearing a tendril.
| 1819 Pantologia, Cirrose Leaf..terminating in a cirrus or tendril. 1854 Woodward Mollusca (1856) 67 Octopus—Body oval, warty or cirrose, without fins. 1870 Bentley Bot. 174 Any part of the leaf may become cirrhose or transformed into a tendril. |
2. Meteorol. Of the nature of cirrus clouds.
| 1814 Millard Time's Telesc. 341 A dense black mass, with a cirrose crown extending from the top. 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. |