CIRRUS
\sˈɪɹəs], \sˈɪɹəs], \s_ˈɪ_ɹ_ə_s]\
Definitions of CIRRUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri.
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The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychaeta.
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The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca.
By Oddity Software
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A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri.
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The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychaeta.
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The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The highest form of cloud consisting of curling fibres: (bot.) a tendril: (zool.) any curled filament.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Cirri. Tendrils; the appendages of barnacles; the jointed filaments of the axis or of the aboral surface of crinoids; the barbels of fishes; the respiratory and tactile appendages of worms; the organs of copulation in some molluscs and trematodes; hairlike structures on the appendages of insects.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe