Vocabulary : Cirriped to Cirsocele

Cirriped : One of the Cirripedia.
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.
Cirrobranchiata : A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.
Cirro-cumulus : See under Cloud.
Cirrose : Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf. ;; Resembling a tendril or cirrus.

Cirrostomi : The lowest group of vertebrates; -- so called from the cirri around the mouth; the Leptocardia. See Amphioxus.
Cirro-stratus : See under Cloud.
Cirrous : Cirrose. ;; Tufted; -- said of certain feathers of birds.
Cirrus : A tendril or clasper. ;; 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. ;; The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychaeta. ;; The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca. ;; See under Cloud.
Cirsocele : The varicose dilatation of the spermatic vein.

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