byssus

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von byssus im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch

ince kumaş

iyi cins sarımtırak keten

bazı kabuklu hayvanlan kayalara bağlayan lif

pamuklu veya ipekli kuma

Mısırlıların mumyalamada kullandıkları kumaş

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von byssus im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

The long fine silky filaments excreted by several mollusks (particularly Pinna nobilis) by which they attach themselves to the sea bed, from which sea silk is manufactured

An exceptionally fine and valuable fibre or cloth of ancient times. Originally used for fine flax and linens, its use was later extended to fine cottons, silks, and sea silk

The stipe or stem of some fungi which are particularly thin and thread-like

(족사)

A cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients

The threads that some molluscs (such as blue mussels - Mytilus edulis) use for attachment to a substrate or cultch

It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk

a fine probably linen cloth of ancient times

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

tuft of strong filaments by which e

An obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender threads

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

Asbestus

a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface

Silbentrennung

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Etymologie

() From New Latin byssus (“sea silk”) Latin byssus (“fine cotton or cotton stuff, silk”) Ancient Greek βύσσος (“a very fine yellowish flax and the linen woven from it”) Hebrew בּוּץ (butz), Aramaic בּוש (bus).