Bearing or producing cirri (hair-like or tendril-like structures).
From Latin cirrus (curl or lock of hair) and -ferous (bearing or carrying). The term literally means 'carrying cirri.'
Cirriferous animals like barnacles use their feathery appendages to comb plankton from the water—they're nature's filter feeders, and they filter so efficiently that they're used to measure ocean pollution.
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