adjective
- Having cirri; furnished with or resembling cirri (hair-like or tendril-like appendages).
Usage: biology, botany; technical term
Examples
- The cirrate tentacles of the sea creature helped it move along the ocean floor.
- Cirrate barnacles use their feathery appendages to filter food from the water.
- The plant's cirrate leaves gave it a delicate, fern-like appearance.
- Marine biologists identified the specimen as cirrate based on its distinctive hair-like structures.