byssine
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin byssinus (“made of byssus”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek βύσσινος (bússinos, “made of byssus”). See byssus.
Adjective
byssine (comparative more byssine, superlative most byssine)
- 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) byssine