Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Resembling a byssus; consisting of fine silky filaments; resembling cobwebs.
Wiktionary
- adj. Like byssus; consisting of fine fibres or threads.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot.) Byssuslike; consisting of fine fibers or threads, as some very delicate filamentous algæ.
Etymologies
- byssus + -aceous (Wiktionary)
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phrontistery - b
List of words from phrontistery.info
bywoner, byssus, byssiferous, byssaceous, byrnie, butyric, butyraceous, buttery, buteonine, bunting, burdet, broma and 582 more...
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Browning words of cotton - often stic...
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words that "catch on": peano curves: fractalitescotton, clue, filament, filaria, filum, filovirus, clod, cloud, peano curve, alveoli, nuance, noil and 122 more...
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via Weird and Wonderful Words
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aboulia, alexiteric, angletouch, dactylion, alveary, sparlire, glabella, philtrum, pallium, heart-spoon, hyperprosexia, paraprosexia and 438 more...
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