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A tendril or clasper.
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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 Polychæta.
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The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca.
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(pl., cirri) - group(s) of cilia fused into a tuft and functioning as a single unit whose kinetosomes are linked by filaments; especially characteristic of hypotrich and stichotrich ciliates.
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In some salamanders, the pair of slender appendages protruding from the front of the upper lip.
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slender tentacle-like process.
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a curl-like tuft; a tendril-like mass or "spore horn" of forced-out spores.
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fine or compound and thin flexible appendage or fringe
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a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile
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(pl. Cirri) - A curllike tuft; a tendrillike mass or "spore horn" of forced-out spores.
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(plural is cirri) Cuticular extensions from the anterior part of the body. Found in armored heterotardigrades.
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