cirrhus

cirrhus (plural cirrhi)

1. Alternative form of cirrus
   • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 320:

     Of his stiff red hair there remained only this orange-whitey cirrhus formation.

2. (Mycology) A mucus-bound ribbon-like mass of spores exuded from a fungus.

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