cirriform
Adjective
Meaning
Formed like a cirrus or tendril; -- said of appendages of both animals and plants.
Source: Webster's dictionaryExamples
All cirriform clouds are classified as high and thus constitute a single genus cirrus (Ci).
The high-étage clouds are all cirriform, one of which, cirrocumulus, is also cumuliform of limited convection or stratocumuliform.
Clouds of the more detached tufted floccus species are also subdivisions of genus-types which may be cirriform or stratocumuliform.
Partly unstable cirriform and stratocumuliform species These species are subdivisions of genus types that occur in partly unstable air.
Types and subtypes Noctilucent (extremely high cirriform) *Type 1: The first type is characterized by very tenuous filaments resembling cirrus fibratus.