"Byssi" is a word in ENGLISH

The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.

See Byssus, n., 1.

Bearing a byssus or tuft.

See Byssus, n., 1.

Asbestus.

An obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender threads.

A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the …

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

of Byssus

A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, …

The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a …

Any one of many species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Mytilus, and related genera, of the family Mytidae. …

A genus of marine bivalve shells, including the common mussel. See Illust. under Byssus.

Any species of Pinna, a genus of large bivalve mollusks found in all warm seas. The byssus consists of a …