"Byssuses" is a word in ENGLISH
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The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.
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Read the complete definitionBearing a byssus or tuft.
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Read the complete definitionAsbestus.
Read the complete definitionAn obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender threads.
Read the complete definitionA tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the …
Read the complete definitionA cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients. It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or …
Read the complete definitionA division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, …
Read the complete definitionThe external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a …
Read the complete definitionAny one of many species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Mytilus, and related genera, of the family Mytidae. …
Read the complete definitionA genus of marine bivalve shells, including the common mussel. See Illust. under Byssus.
Read the complete definitionAny species of Pinna, a genus of large bivalve mollusks found in all warm seas. The byssus consists of a …
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