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byssi

byssi is the plural of byssus.

Meaning of byssus

Noun

byssus (usually uncountable, plural byssi or byssuses)

  1. (usually) The long fine silky filaments excreted by several mollusks (particularly Pinna nobilis) by which they attach themselves to the sea bed, and from which sea silk is manufactured.
  2. (usually) Sea silk manufactured from these filaments.
  3. (usually) The stipe or stem of some fungi which are particularly thin and thread-like.

Questions about byssi

What is byssi the plural of?
Byssi is the plural of byssus.

Words near byssi in the dictionary

  1. byspel
  2. byssaceous
  3. byssal
  4. byssally
  5. byssate
  6. byssi
  7. byssiferous
  8. byssine
  9. byssinoses
  10. byssinosis
  11. byssinotic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: byssi (page history and authors); byssus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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