Lexicographical Neighbors of Byssi
Literary usage of Byssi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"... sweeping them into unsuitable spawning- grounds while depositing their eggs?
Are these byssi (?) seasonal, or permanenti If byssi, how are they spun? ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1895)
"... well secured by their byssi, were found under the abdomen of the same species,
in such a position as to force the appendages apart and aske\v. ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1827)
"Such, upon these arid rocks, is the development of vegetation, begun by simple
byssi, and some lichens, propagated by tufts of mosses, augmented by ..."
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