byssusn.

Brit.

/ˈbɪsəs/, U.S.

/ˈbɪsəs/

Forms: Also Middle English–1600s bissus.

Etymology: < Latin byssus, < Greek βύσσος ‘a fine yellowish flax, and the linen made from it, but in later writers taken for cotton, also silk, which was supposed to be a kind of cotton’ (Liddell & Scott), < Hebrew būts, applied to ‘the finest and most precious stuffs, as worn by kings, priests, and persons of high rank or honour’ (Gesenius), translated in Bible of 1611 ‘fine linen’, < root *būts, Arabic bāḍ to be white, to surpass in whiteness. Originally therefore a fibre or fabric distinguished for its whiteness.

1. An exceedingly fine and valuable textile fibre and fabric known to the ancients; apparently the word was used, or misused, of various substances, linen, cotton, and silk, but it denoted properly (as shown by microscopic examination of mummy-cloths, which according to Herodotus were made of βύσσος) a kind of flax, and hence is appropriately translated in the English Bible ‘fine linen’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > fine

byssc1330

byssine1382

byssusa1398

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xcvii. 988 Þer is many maner flex, but þe fayrest of alle groweþ in Egipte, for þerof is byssus ymade swiþe fair and white as snowe.

1614 W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 232 Bissus, was a plant or kinde of silke grasse.

1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost I. i. v. 13 Byssus was a fine sort of Flax, which grew in Greece.

1828 T. De Quincey Toilette Hebrew Lady in Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 297/1 For wool and flax was often substituted the finest byssus, or other silky substance.

1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 38 Hair-nets made of golden thread or silk or byssus.

†2. A name formerly given to filamentous fungoid growths of different kinds, which are now more accurately classified. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > other fungi

bolet1526

boletus1601

byssus1753

fly-fungus1822

turban-top1828

stilbid1846

empusa1856

Scotch bonnet1861

wolf's-milk1861

lizard's herb1866

fairy ring1870

Malta fungus1870

flowers of tan1882

mycorrhiza1886

fumago1887

milky cap1887

moss-gold1887

oomycete1889

razor strop fungus1893

club-fungusa1909

sulphur tuft1909

bolete1914

old man of the woods1972

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Byssus..a genus of mosses the most imperfect of the whole class of vegetables.

1770 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) IV. 143 Cryptogamia. Algæ. Byssus, substance like fine down or velvet, simple or feathered.

1838 Econ. of Vegetation 152 The mouse-skin byssus may be seen attached to the roof of the vault in wine cellars.

3. Zoology. The tuft of fine silky filaments by which molluscs of the genus Pinna and various mussels attach themselves to the surface of rocks; it is secreted by the byssus-gland in the foot.‘These filaments have been spun, and made into small articles of apparel..Their colour is brilliant, and ranges from a beautiful golden yellow to a rich brown; they also are very durable..The fabric is so thin that a pair of stockings may be put in an ordinary-sized snuff-box’ ( S. W. Beck Draper's Dict. 39).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > mollusc or shell-fish > parts of mollusc

ungulaa1382

mantlea1475

trunk1661

diaphragm1665

lid1681

operculum1681

ear1688

beard1697

corslet1753

scar1793

opercle1808

pleura1826

pallium1834

byssus1835

cephalic ganglia1835–6

opercule1836

lingual ribbon1839

tube1839

cloak1842

test1842

collar1847

testa1847

rachis1851

uncinus1851

land-shell1853

mantle cavity1853

mesopodium1853

propodium1853

radula1853

malacology1854

gill comb1861

pallial cavity1862

tongue-tootha1877

mesopode1877

odontophore1877

pallial chamber1877

shell-gland1877

rasp1879

protopodium1880

ctenidium1883

osphradium1883

shell-sac1883

tooth-ribbon1883

megalaesthete1885

rachidian1900

scungille1953

tentacle-sheath-

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 702 The byssus is a bundle of horny or silky filaments.

1838 New Monthly Mag. 53 546 They..moor themselves to rocks and stones by the tiny cables of their byssus.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 199 Mussels are used at Bideford to fix, by means of their byssus, the stones of a bridge, which is difficult to keep in repair, owing to the rapidity of the tide.

4. Botany. ‘The thread-like stipe of some fungi’. New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1881.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > parts of

pileus1760

hat1775

rind1788

spherule1796

Rhizomorpha1802

stipe1821

peridium1823

umbo1836

ambrosia1840

holdfast1841

rhizomorph1848

peridiole1857

trama1857

pileole1858

pileolus1858

byssus1866

rhabdus1866

conidiophore1874

appressorium1897

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. (at cited word)

†5. A name formerly given to asbestos n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > [noun] > asbestos

asbestos1608

salamander wool1626

salamander1668

salamander's hair1728

byssus1864

the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > amphibole (double chain) > [noun] > asbestos

quick-line1601

asbestos1608

earth flax1649

thrum-stone1681

fossil linen1797

cork-fossil1806

fossil cork1859

mountain-cork1859

rock-cork1859

byssus1864

the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > phyllosilicate > [noun] > serpentine > fibrous

asbestos1608

earth flax1649

thrum-stone1681

picrolite1816

chrysotile1850

byssus1864

1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Nicholson).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	byssus
释义	byssusn. Brit. /ˈbɪsəs/, U.S. /ˈbɪsəs/ Forms: Also Middle English–1600s bissus. Etymology: < Latin byssus, < Greek βύσσος ‘a fine yellowish flax, and the linen made from it, but in later writers taken for cotton, also silk, which was supposed to be a kind of cotton’ (Liddell & Scott), < Hebrew būts, applied to ‘the finest and most precious stuffs, as worn by kings, priests, and persons of high rank or honour’ (Gesenius), translated in Bible of 1611 ‘fine linen’, < root būts, Arabic bāḍ* to be white, to surpass in whiteness. Originally therefore a fibre or fabric distinguished for its whiteness. 1. An exceedingly fine and valuable textile fibre and fabric known to the ancients; apparently the word was used, or misused, of various substances, linen, cotton, and silk, but it denoted properly (as shown by microscopic examination of mummy-cloths, which according to Herodotus were made of βύσσος) a kind of flax, and hence is appropriately translated in the English Bible ‘fine linen’. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > fine byssc1330 byssine1382 byssusa1398 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xcvii. 988 Þer is many maner flex, but þe fayrest of alle groweþ in Egipte, for þerof is byssus ymade swiþe fair and white as snowe. 1614 W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 232 Bissus, was a plant or kinde of silke grasse. 1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost I. i. v. 13 Byssus was a fine sort of Flax, which grew in Greece. 1828 T. De Quincey Toilette Hebrew Lady in Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 297/1 For wool and flax was often substituted the finest byssus, or other silky substance. 1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 38 Hair-nets made of golden thread or silk or byssus. †2. A name formerly given to filamentous fungoid growths of different kinds, which are now more accurately classified. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > other fungi bolet1526 boletus1601 byssus1753 fly-fungus1822 turban-top1828 stilbid1846 empusa1856 Scotch bonnet1861 wolf's-milk1861 lizard's herb1866 fairy ring1870 Malta fungus1870 flowers of tan1882 mycorrhiza1886 fumago1887 milky cap1887 moss-gold1887 oomycete1889 razor strop fungus1893 club-fungusa1909 sulphur tuft1909 bolete1914 old man of the woods1972 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Byssus..a genus of mosses the most imperfect of the whole class of vegetables. 1770 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) IV. 143 Cryptogamia. Algæ. Byssus, substance like fine down or velvet, simple or feathered. 1838 Econ. of Vegetation 152 The mouse-skin byssus may be seen attached to the roof of the vault in wine cellars. 3. Zoology. The tuft of fine silky filaments by which molluscs of the genus Pinna and various mussels attach themselves to the surface of rocks; it is secreted by the byssus-gland in the foot.‘These filaments have been spun, and made into small articles of apparel..Their colour is brilliant, and ranges from a beautiful golden yellow to a rich brown; they also are very durable..The fabric is so thin that a pair of stockings may be put in an ordinary-sized snuff-box’ ( S. W. Beck Draper's Dict. 39). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > mollusc or shell-fish > parts of mollusc ungulaa1382 mantlea1475 trunk1661 diaphragm1665 lid1681 operculum1681 ear1688 beard1697 corslet1753 scar1793 opercle1808 pleura1826 pallium1834 byssus1835 cephalic ganglia1835–6 opercule1836 lingual ribbon1839 tube1839 cloak1842 test1842 collar1847 testa1847 rachis1851 uncinus1851 land-shell1853 mantle cavity1853 mesopodium1853 propodium1853 radula1853 malacology1854 gill comb1861 pallial cavity1862 tongue-tootha1877 mesopode1877 odontophore1877 pallial chamber1877 shell-gland1877 rasp1879 protopodium1880 ctenidium1883 osphradium1883 shell-sac1883 tooth-ribbon1883 megalaesthete1885 rachidian1900 scungille1953 tentacle-sheath- 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 702 The byssus is a bundle of horny or silky filaments. 1838 New Monthly Mag. 53 546 They..moor themselves to rocks and stones by the tiny cables of their byssus. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 199 Mussels are used at Bideford to fix, by means of their byssus, the stones of a bridge, which is difficult to keep in repair, owing to the rapidity of the tide. 4. Botany. ‘The thread-like stipe of some fungi’. New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1881. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > parts of pileus1760 hat1775 rind1788 spherule1796 Rhizomorpha1802 stipe1821 peridium1823 umbo1836 ambrosia1840 holdfast1841 rhizomorph1848 peridiole1857 trama1857 pileole1858 pileolus1858 byssus1866 rhabdus1866 conidiophore1874 appressorium1897 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. (at cited word) †5. A name formerly given to asbestos n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > [noun] > asbestos asbestos1608 salamander wool1626 salamander1668 salamander's hair1728 byssus1864 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > amphibole (double chain) > [noun] > asbestos quick-line1601 asbestos1608 earth flax1649 thrum-stone1681 fossil linen1797 cork-fossil1806 fossil cork1859 mountain-cork1859 rock-cork1859 byssus1864 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > phyllosilicate > [noun] > serpentine > fibrous asbestos1608 earth flax1649 thrum-stone1681 picrolite1816 chrysotile1850 byssus1864 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Nicholson). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1398
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