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Meaning of BYSSUS in English

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

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    Meaning of BYSSUS in English

    • 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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