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Byssus 1

Definition: A cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients. It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk.

Byssus 2

Definition: A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the valves of certain bivalve mollusks, as the Pinna and Mytilus, by which they attach themselves to rocks, etc.

Byssus 3

Definition: An obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender threads.

Byssus 4

Definition: Asbestus.

byssus 5

Definition: tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface

 

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