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- English Word Cirrose Definition Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf.
- English Word Cirrose Definition Resembling a tendril or cirrus.
- English Word Cirrostomi Definition The lowest group of vertebrates; -- so called from the cirri around the mouth; the Leptocardia. See Amphioxus.
- English Word Cirrous Definition Cirrose.
- English Word Cirrous Definition Tufted; -- said of certain feathers of birds.
- English Word Cirrus Definition A tendril or clasper.
- English Word Cirrus Definition A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri.
- English Word Cirrus Definition The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychaeta.
- English Word Cirrus Definition The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca.
- English Word Cirrus Definition See under Cloud.
- English Word Cirsocele Definition The varicose dilatation of the spermatic vein.
- English Word Cirsoid Definition Varicose.
- English Word Cirsotomy Definition Any operation for the removal of varices by incision.
- English Word Cis- Definition A Latin preposition, sometimes used as a prefix in English words, and signifying on this side.
- English Word Cisalpine Definition On the hither side of the Alps with reference to Rome, that is, on the south side of the Alps; -- opposed to transalpine.
- English Word Cisatlantic Definition On this side of the Atlantic Ocean; -- used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer.
- English Word Cisco Definition The Lake herring (Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of the Great Lakes of North America. The name is also applied to C. Hoyi, a related species of Lake Michigan.
- English Word Ciselure Definition The process of chasing on metals; also, the work thus chased.
- English Word Cisleithan Definition On the Austrian side of the river Leitha; Austrian.
- English Word Cismontane Definition On this side of the mountains. See under Ultramontane.