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Definition of Cirri
1. n. pl. See Cirrus.
Definition of Cirri
1. Noun. (botany) (plural of cirrus) Tendrils or claspers. ¹
2. Noun. (zoology) (plural of cirrus) Grouped cilia that function as "legs" in certain species of protists. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cirri
1. cirrus [n] - See also: cirrus
Medical Definition of Cirri
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cirri
Literary usage of Cirri
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"There can be very little doubt that these elegant organs, provided as they are
with cirri aud cilia, are not only instrumental in conveying microscopic ..."
2. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1903)
"The progression is effected entirely by the cilia or cirri on the ventral surface
of the body, which are used like the legs of higher animals. ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1896)
"of cirri. Mediterranean, Atlantic, on the Norwegian coast, off Spitzbergen, and
on the Madeira coast. S. armillaris Mull, is very common at low water; ..."
4. Proceedings of the British Meteorological Society by British Meteorological Society (1863)
"This appearance of the higher cirri immediately brought to my recollection
something of a very similar character which I had noticed when an undergraduate ..."
5. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia: With Figures of All the Species by Charles Darwin (1854)
"The three posterior cirri are elongated, and each segment supports five or six
pairs of long spines, with a few minute intermediate bristles. 2. ..."
6. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"Key to the genera of Syllidae here described: a. Palps prominent; ventral cirri
present; tentacles and cirri segmented. 1. ..."
7. A History of British Fishes by William Yarrell (1841)
"than to the mouth, are four cirri arranged in an irregular line. The summit of
the head is rough, with the central plates beautifully radiated, ..."
8. The Micrographic Dictionary: A Guide to the Examination and Investigation of by John William Griffith, Arthur Henfrey (1875)
"They aro t he crawling Infusoria; and their styles, hooks, and marginal cirri
occasionally split longitudinally, and are transformed into bundles of five ..."
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