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A tendril.

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A thin tendril-like appendage.

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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.

Sometimes they float above the surface, sometimes they are connected with it by stems or branches, and they show delicate striated detail like cirrus cloud.

This reformed cloud moved off to the SE leaving thin altocumulus and cirrus much as before.

This earlier photograph was taken following a day in which high cirrus had been seeded by aircraft trails.

The mornings briefing was for thickening high level cirrus as the day progressed but a short soaring window before it got here.

The weather here is glorious - another floor to ceiling blue sky, with some thin cirrus to color it in.

Deep convective clouds also produce large extensive anvils in the upper troposphere and are a major source of tropical cirrus.

There was hazy sunshine through 5 oktas cirrus clouds and visibility was good.

The sky partially cleared during the morning revealing jet stream cirrus and there were some good sunny spells that lasted into early afternoon.

The ice crystals are in cirrus clouds, seen in the photographs above lower clouds behind which the sun set.

During the morning cumulus activity diminished but cloud remained to the SW with veils of high cirrus.

Ian Seager himself had flown down in a Cirrus and was struggling to find something derogatory to say about it.

Cirrus is a nearly unique source of these displays because they are produced by the refraction of light-rays passing through ice crystals.

A, a segment of Bothriocephalus latus, showing the generative organs from the ventral surface; ex., excretory vessels; c., cirrus; c.p., cirrus pouch; v.d., vas deferens; v.o., vaginal opening; v., vagina; sh.g., shell-gland; od., oviduct; ov., ovary; y.g., yolk-gland; y.d., its duct; ut., uterus; u.o., uterine opening; the testes are not visible from this side; X 23 (from Sommer and Landois).

The phase functions will be applied to interpretation of cirrus radiance data from satellites and aircraft.

The spiral shape of both the dark boundary and the white cirrus suggests a storm system rotating counterclockwise.

The Orchard Card is accepted at all ATMs in the Cirrus network.

Use this debit card anywhere you see an Interac, Cirrus or Maestro logo.

B, anterior portion more highly magnified (from Marshall and Hurst, after Sommer); cs, cirrus sac; d, ductus ejaculatorius; f, female aperture; o, ovary; od, oviduct; p, penis; s, shell-gland; t, anterior testis; u, uterus; va, vp, vasa deferentia; us, vesicula seminalis; y, yolk-gland; yd, its duct.

Most low level cloud cleared away by mid afternoon leaving only cirrus, but returned from the W later.

A few contrails forming cirrus drifting from the NE otherwise wall-to-wall sunshine, Valley reported { 12h }, the most in the UK.

Withdrawals can be made from any ATM machine, anywhere in the world, that bears the Interac, Cirrus or Maestro logos.

A, Fasciola hepatica, from the ventral surface (X 2); the alimentary and nervous systems only shown on the left side of the figure, the excretory only on the right; a, right main branch of the intestine; c, a diverticulum; g, lateral ganglion; n, lateral nerve; o, mouth; p, pharynx; s, ventral sucker; cs, cirrus sac; d, left anterior dorsal excretory vessel; m, main vessel; v, left anterior ventral trunk; x, excretory pore.

Naturally, it is among the free living forms that the parapodium is best developed, and least developed among the tubicolous belongs typically a long tentacle, the cirrus, which 'r podium or neuropodium, and may be developed into an arborescent gill or into a flat scale-like process, A the elytron (in Polynoe, &c.).

From this point a glandular tube runs to the genital atrium and during the last part of its course is converted into an eversible hooked "cirrus" or penis.