Word.ws English Dictionary

byssogenous

byssogenous adjective: secreting or producing byssus.

Adjective

byssogenous (not comparable)

  1. Secreting or producing byssus.

Origin of byssogenous

From byssus + -o- + -genous.

Questions about byssogenous

What does byssogenous mean?
Byssogenous means secreting or producing byssus.
What part of speech is byssogenous?
Byssogenous is an adjective.

Words near byssogenous in the dictionary

  1. byssine
  2. byssinoses
  3. byssinosis
  4. byssinotic
  5. byssochlamic acid
  6. byssogenous
  7. byssoid
  8. byssolite
  9. byssolites
  10. byssolitic
  11. byssus

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: byssogenous (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “byssogenous.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/byssogenous. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.