Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Biology Having or resembling a cirrus or cirri.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having cirri or a cirrus; cirriferous or cirrigerous.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, pertaining to, or fringed with cirri
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Having cirri along the margin of a part or organ.
Etymologies
- Latin cirratus having ringlets, from cirrus a curl. (Wiktionary)
- Latin cirrātus, curled, from cirrus, curl of hair. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“At 1,000 to 3,000 meters researchers collected a very large specimen of a rare, primitive animal known as cirrate or finned octopod, commonly called "Dumbos" because they flap a pair of large ear-like fins to swim, akin to the cartoon flying elephant.”
“At 1,000 to 3,000 meters (~. 6-1.9 miles): NOAA researchers led by Mike Vecchione of the Smithsonian Institution collected a very large specimen of a rare, primitive animal known as cirrate or finned octopod, commonly called "Dumbos" because they flap a pair of large ear-like fins to swim, akin to the cartoon flying elephant.”
“At 1000m to 3000m researchers collected a very large specimen of a rare, primitive animal known as cirrate or finned octopod, commonly called "Dumbos" because they flap a pair of large ear-like fins to swim, akin to the cartoon flying elephant.”
“Among the bizarre creatures encountered by the researchers were a 6ft-long cirrate octopod”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cirrate’.
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
czardas, cytometer, cytology, cytheromania, cystoscope, cystolith, cyrenaic, cypseline, cyprinoid, cyphonism, cynophobia, cytogenesis and 1298 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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the sea
words and i learned and loved during a year of editing children's books about the ocean, plus a few more i've discovered since then
cirrate, crinoid, umbellula, wobbegong, coelacanth, ooid, cnidarian, coelenterate, mesoglea, gorgonin
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