byssine

English

Etymology

Latin byssinus (“made of byssus”), from Ancient Greek βύσσινος (bússinos, “made of byssus”). See byssus.

Adjective

byssine (comparative more byssine, superlative most byssine)

  1. Made of, or resembling, silk; silken.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for byssine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Adjective

byssine

  1. vocative masculine singular of byssinus
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