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Byssus

noun
(pl. E. byssuses; L. byssi)
1.
Tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface.  Synonym: beard.






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... Plantarum for a sub-class of Cryptogamia, the members of which presented this character in a greater or less degree. Of the fifteen genera included by Linnaeus among algae, not more than six—viz. Chara, Fucus, Diva and Conferva, and in part Tremella and Byssus—would to-day, in any sense in which the term is employed, be regarded as algae. The excluded genera are distributed among the liverworts, lichens and fungi; but notwithstanding the great advance in knowledge since the time of Linnaeus, the difficulty of deciding ...
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