cirri in English

noun
1
cloud forming wispy filamentous tufted streaks (“mare's tails”) at high altitude, usually 16,500–45,000 feet (5–13 km).
The basic cloud forms are cumulus, which are heaped clouds; stratus, which are layer clouds; and cirrus , which are wispy.
2
a slender tendril or hairlike filament, such as the appendage of a barnacle, the barbel of a fish, or the intromittent organ of an earthworm.
Once the barnacles extended their cirri (fanlike, food-gathering appendages) and started waving them about to collect nutritious particles in the water, the researchers cast a shadow over them with a piece of cardboard.
noun
  • cirrus cloud
  • cirrhus

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1. Cirrate: Having or resembling a cirrus or cirri.

2. Stalkless Crinoids, or comatulids, have numerous movable processes (cirri) and can crawl and swim

3. The Barnacles will open the top of the shell and extend the Cirri into the water

4. Whale Barnacles passively filter food, using tentacle-like cirri, as the host swims through the water.

5. Abdominalis have prominent, rounded eye spines, cirri around the head region, deep body, males have a prominent brood pouch that is usually white

6. The cirri or tentacles, of which three or four pairs are present, are capable of being protruded, and the minute larva swims by means of the Ciliary action they produce

7. (3) Solid and persisting anchoring to the drifting substrate to prevent breakage and detachment from the log by adhesive, anastomosing radicular rootlets in Traumatocrinus and—less successful—in Seirocrinus by a tuft of flexible cirri.

8. Cilium, plural cilia, short eyelashlike filament that is numerous on tissue cells of most animals and provides the means for locomotion of protozoans of the phylum Ciliophora. Cilia may be fused in short transverse rows to form membranelles or in tufts to form cirri.

9. On the marginal cirri of Stylonychia mytilus 4 functional types of movement are separated by means of frame-by-frame evaluation of cine-records (200 f/sec). These are demonstrated by single frames, phase diagrams and mean ratios of: amplitude, beat duration, frequency and angular speed (Table).