Cirrus, CIRRHUS, in Botany, see TENDRIL, CLIMBING-PLANTS. The term cirrus, in Zoology, may designate any curled filament, and has been applied to the curiously modified abdominal limbs of the Cirripedia (q.v.).
Cirrus
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 266
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