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Sentence Examples
| The diagnosis of this genus is largely based on features of the cirri and arms, and is thus of only limited relevance to the present specimen. |
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| The ventral nerve chord and nerve bundles of the maxillary cirri are indicated. |
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| The nape lacks cirri, and the first gill arch attaches to the operculum, the latter characteristic distinguishing Tripterygiidae from Clinidae. |
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| After scaling a sea fan, the feather star might stay for a while, hanging on by means of tiny hooks called cirri. |
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| In unstalked crinoids, the cirri are located on the end of the calyx opposite the mouth, and are used by the animal to grasp the substratum. |
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| Other common elements may include the possession of fixed conical teeth and cirri, or fleshy hair-like projections, on the head. |
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| The trivial name nudus refers to the lack of cirri on the column of this new species of Camptocrinus. |
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| In barnacles the cirri filter tiny bits of food from the water and then transfer them to the mouth. |
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| The barnacle opens the movable plates and its feathery legs, called cirri, act like plankton nets and rhythmically sweep the water. |
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| A thin, chitinous cuticle covers the appendage-bearing portion of the body, including the cirri, mouthparts, and lining of the mantle cavity. |
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| This reflex results in the rapid withdrawal of the cirri, which are otherwise vulnerable to predation, especially by fish. |
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| Some studies suggest that the barnacle's cirri can be extended and retracted 140 times per minute. |
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| Muller and Westheide found the innervation pattern of myzostomid parapodia and marginal cirri to be identical to that of polychaete parapodia and cirri. |
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| The head is often blunt and typically adorned with tentacles or cirri. |
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| Sometimes conidia are extruded through ostioles in whitish cirri. |
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| The presence of aciculae and well developed parapodial lobes with cirri in Rollinschaeta clearly invites comparison with living aciculate polychaetes. |
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| They differ from acorn barnacles in that the plates do not form a separate wall and operculum and in having the wall and the cirri it contains elevated above the substratum by a peduncle. |
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| The blue sky is glossy and fat with heat, a few thin cirri sheared to blown strands like hair at the rims. |
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| Count how often barnacles move their cirri in one minute. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| The parapodia have, besides the bristles, a second set of hair-like appendages, called cirri. |
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| At the end of the last thoracic segment, there is a minute abdomen, bearing three pairs of biramous cirri. |
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| If the cumulus be the only cloud at first visible, its upper part is seen to become tufted with cirri. |
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| His cello pieces, of which several were published, are as obsolete as those of cirri. |
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| The cirri disappeared by degrees, and the cumuli towered up on the horizon in colossal masses. |
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| Antenn, tentacular cirri and notocirri banded at base and distally with black. |
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| Dorsal cirri present in addition to branchi on the first four setigerous somites. |
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| Numerous long, filamentous, red to orange-colored cirri extend nearly the whole length of the body and act as gills. |
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| The shells are nacreous within, and the animal, with its rows of waving cirri upon each side, is very suggestive of Trochus. |
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| The pedicels of all the cirri are thickly covered with bristles. |
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| People don't know what cirri are, at least not one out of fifty readers. |
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| The cirri not rarely get cut off, but are, as it appears, soon repaired. |
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| In very young specimens, the cirri are only barred with purple. |
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| Pedicels of the cirri not particularly protuberant in front. |
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| In the higher regions of the air we look for the cirri, the Curl Clouds. |
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| The motile organs are cirri and cilia, all inserted in the constriction. |
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| Cirri and cirrostratus clouds have been very prevalent during the day, and cumulostratus during the night. |
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