An organism or creature whose mouth or opening is surrounded by or characterized by cirri; specifically applied to certain marine organisms with cirrus-like mouth structures.
From Latin cirrus (curl) + Greek stoma (mouth). Compounds an anatomical feature (cirri) with the location (mouth) to describe organisms with distinctive mouth structures.
Some ancient marine organisms called cirrostomes had mouths completely fringed with feeding cirri—imagine a creature that is essentially one giant mouth surrounded by a feathery skirt!
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