a. Erroneously cirrh-. [f. L. cirr-us + -fer-us bearing + -OUS; cf. F. cirrifère.] Cirrus-bearing; producing cirri.
1819. Pantologia, III. Cirriferous Leaf, a tendril-bearing leaf.
1842. Gray, Struct. Bot., iii. § 4 (1880), 101. Cirrhiferous Pinnate, or pinnate with a tendril, as in the proper Pea tribe.
1869. Nicholson, Zool., 244. Two long cirriferous arms.
