byssus

byssus has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface