Crossword-Solution: BYSSUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Byssus | n. | A cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients. It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk. |
| Byssus | 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. |
| Byssus | n. | An obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender threads. |
| Byssus | n. | Asbestus. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “BYSSUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| MUMMY cloth | 1 answer |
| mass of threads that attaches an animal to a hard surface | 1 answer |
| silk | 44 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
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greedy person
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Sentences with BYSSUS (5)
But if a woman bore a girl, she was to be arrayed in byssus, silk, and embroidered garments, and led forth from the house of detention amid great honors.
JOSEPH MEETS HIS BRETHREN A large crown of gold on his head, apparelled in byssus and purple, and surrounded by his valiant men, Joseph was seated upon his throne in his palace.
The procession that accompanied him was composed of countless men, arrayed in byssus and purple, and marching to the sound of all sorts of musical instruments.
Two enormous balneatores laid him on a cypress table covered with snow-white Egyptian byssus, and with hands dipped in perfumed olive oil began to rub his shapely body; and he waited with closed eyes till the heat of the laconicum and the heat of their hands passed through him and expelled weariness.
From tree to tree stretched curtains of byssus, white and sapphire blue, and vivid green and royal purple, fastened to their supports by ropes depending from round silver beams, these in turn resting on pillars of red, green, yellow, white, and glittering blue marble.