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Definition of: byssus

(bisəs) noun plural bys·sus·es or bys·si (bisī)
1. Formerly, any costly white stuff of cotton, silk, or linen.
2. Zool. A bunch of silky thread secreted by the foot of certain stationary bivalve mollusks, as mussels, and serving as a means of attachment to an anchorage.
3. Bot. A filamentous fungus of the obsolete group Byssi. [<L <Gk. byssos fine linen]

Most often used phrases:

byssus threads
byssus cloth
problema byssus
byssus skipper

'byssus' used in domains:

exabyssus.com
abyssusaoc.com
abyssus.com
abyssusguild.com
abyssusnexpaciscor.com
byssus-project.com

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