cirrateadj.

/ˈsɪreɪt/Etymology: < Latin cirrātus.
Zoology.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence IV. xlvi. 321. Cirrate (Cirratæ). When the joints terminate in a pair of curling hairy branches resembling tendrils.
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