a. [f. as prec. + -ger-us bearing; cf. F. cirrigère.] Bearing cirri.
1736. Bailey, Cirrigerous … bearing curled locks or crests of feathers.
1854. Woodward, Mollusca (1856), 465. Animal limaciform, cirrigerous.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., v. 234. The order of arrangement of the elytrigerous and cirrigerous somites is very curious.
