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byssus

Length / number of characters: 6
Number of words: 1

  • tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
  • A cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients. It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk
  • 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
  • An obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender threads
  • Asbestus

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