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See Cirrus.

Bearing cirri, as many plants and animals.

Formed like a cirrus or tendril; -- said of appendages of both animals and plants.

Having curled locks of hair; supporting cirri, or hairlike appendages.

Moving or moved by cirri, or hairlike appendages.

One of the Cirripedia.

An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa.

A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages.

ormal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus. See Barnacle.

rnacle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle. See Cirripedia.

A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs.

A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea; a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage.

Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle. Barnacle eater (Zoöl.), the orange filefish. -- Barnacle scale (Zoöl.), a bark louse (Ce…

ucopsis), of Arctic Europe and America. It was formerly believed that it hatched from the cirripeds of the sea (Lepas), which were, therefore, called barnacles, goose barnacles, or Anatifers. The name is also applied to other related species. See Anatifa and Cirripedia.

Having cirri along the margin of a part or organ.

See Cirriferous.

A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.

The lowest group of vertebrates; -- so called from the cirri around the mouth; the Leptocardia. See Amphioxus.

ollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri.