Cirrus

n. pl. Cirri (#).
  1. (Bot.) A tendril or clasper.
  2. (Zoöl.) The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca.
  3. (Meteor.) See under Cloud.
    1. 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.
    2. The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychæta.

In some of the inferior animals the cirri aid in locomotion; in others they are used in feeding; in the Annelida they are mostly organs of touch. Some cirri are branchial in function.