byssus
Byssus is a 6 letter word which starts with the letter B and ends with the letter S for which we found 4 definitions.
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| (n.) A cloth of exceedingly fine texture used by the ancients. It is disputed whether it was of cotton linen or silk. |
| (n.) 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. |
| (n.) An obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender threads. |
| (n.) Asbestus. |
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