It attaches itself by the byssusin great bunches to mangrove roots, sticks, and all manner of rubbish in brackish water.
The use of a byssus is for attachment to any object to effect a temporary or permanent lodgment.
It is always so fastened by its byssus that the beaks of the valves point downward, and the ventral margin projects above the sand or mud.
Like /Modiola plicatula/, they attach themselves by means of their byssus to shells or stones which lie under the surface.
The scar formed by the muscle which controls the byssus is curiously rayed in this genus.
For the byssus to pass, as it does, through a specially prepared hole in one of the valves is an extraordinary departure from the conventional types of byssiferous species.
Most bivalves having a strong byssus exhibit a feeble development of the foot; nearly all bivalves, however, show traces, sometimes only in the embryo, of a byssal gland.
A Floridian species which is often found attached by its byssus to large algae which have been washed upon the beach.
The accompanying cut shows /Mytilus edulis/, a common east-coast pelecypod, attached by its byssus to a piece of wood.
It has the same sort of calcified byssus as /Anomia/, and also the hole to accommodate it in the smaller valve.
The gills are very large and curved, while all the organs seem to be abnormally placed on account of the huge byssus and byssal muscle.
The glochidium quits the gill-pouch of its parent and swims by alternate opening and shutting of the valves of its shell, as do adult Pecten and Lima, trailing at the same time a long byssus thread.
This byssus is not homologous with that of other Lamellibranchs, but originates from a single glandular epithelial cell embedded in the tissues on the dorsal anterior side of the adductor muscle.
In the allied genus Cyclas, a byssus gland is formed in the foot and subsequently disappears, but no such gland occurs in Pisidium.
Gloves made of the byssus of recent Pinnæ may be seen in the British Museum.
The meaning of the word Byssus has been disputed; some authorities asserting that it includes both flax and cotton fabrics.
Yates has carefully argued the whole question, and, we think, has proved that byssus was flax, and not cotton.
In all these genera the foot is small, its retractile muscles numerous, and the byssus large.
In the genus Mytilus the byssus is divided to its base.
In the byssus of some mussels we find as many as a hundred and fifty of these small threads, with which the animal anchors itself most securely to the rock.
In Lithodomus the byssus is rudimentary; the muscles are retractile, equal, and two pairs only.
The byssus has in all ages fixed the attention of the Mediterranean fishermen upon these curious shells.
This bivalve moors itself to the bottom of the sea by a strongbyssus of a brownish colour.
The mussel attaches its byssus to some fixed object, and drawing upon it, as upon a line, the shell is displaced.
The genus Pinna, so called by Linnæus, from one of the species which was so designated from the resemblance of its byssus to the aigrette or plumelet which the Roman soldiers attached to the helmet.
While the oyster remains eternally riveted to its rock, until torn from it by violence, the mussel moves about, and in this motion the byssus is an active agent.
I remember it perfectly; but other shell-fish produceByssus besides the Pinna.
Don’t you remember, mamma, showing me a pair of gloves made of the Byssus of the Pinna at the British Museum?
The first change that takes place is the disappearance of the byssus and the byssus organ.
It rapidly grows larger and becomes a paired pyriform gland, in which are secreted the byssus threads which serve to attach all the embryos at a common point to the walls of the brood-pouch.
The byssus organ, the toothed processes of the shell, and the sense organs of the Glochidium can hardly be ancestral rudiments, but must be organs which have been specially developed for the peculiar mode of life of the Glochidium.
The silken byssus of the great pinna, or wing-shell, is woven into dresses.
The silky filaments or byssus by which some testacea adhere to rocks.
A candelabrum completely covered with chiselled flowers was burning at the far end, and each of its eight golden branches bore a wick of byssus in a diamond chalice.
He sat bare-headed beneath a parasol of byssus which was carried by a Negro behind him.
In one group (genus Pinna) found in the Mediterranean Sea, this byssus is so fine and silky that the Italians weave it with silk and make caps, gloves and other articles of wearing apparel.
It is an interesting sight to observe a beach at low water, the receding tide having left on the shore or in little pools of water hundreds of these mollusks, attached by a byssus to bits of sea weed.
Some bivalves also attach themselves by a byssus composed of a number of silk-like threads, which anchor their shells to stones, sticks, and other foreign objects.
They attach themselves to mud banks and shore vegetation by a strong byssus made up of stout, more or less silky threads.
The margins of the mantle are doubly fringed, and the byssus is extremely powerful.
The foot is usually provided with a byssus by which the animal fixes itself to a little projection on the side of its burrow.
It serves to remove those molluscs that adhere firmly to the rocks by suction, and also others that fix themselves by means of a byssus of silken fibres, as is the case with mussels.
In ditches by the way side the Water Byssus was observable (Byssus Flos aquae), particularly in places sheltered from the wind.
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.
Joseph ordered his father's body to be placed upon a couch of ivory, covered with gold, studded with gems, and hung with drapery of byssus and purple.
A genus of bivalve shells, composed of the Arca Noae, and several other species, separated from the genus Arca on account of their shells being attached by means of a byssus passing through an hiatus in the ventral margins.
The Byssus is peculiar to some bivalve shells such as Muscles, Hammer Oysters, Arca Noae, &c.
It differs from Orbicula in the mode of attachment, which in the latter, is by a byssus passing through the lower valve, and not by the valve itself.
In other cases the byssus is of a more compact substance, and passes through a perforation in the shell itself.
Bock remarks that this Byssus was much sought for in early Christian times under the name of Byssus of Alexandria.
In the anterior part of the foot there is frequently situated a gland which ejects a gelatinoid moisture, which hardens into glutinous filaments--the byssus or beard.
Here belong the Cardiacea and gigantic Chamidæ, in which last a byssus occurs, and the union also of the two occlusor or sphincter muscles, as in the following order.
She stood there waiting for him, clad in misty white, like the moonbeams, yet the byssus of her garb was no whiter than was the throat that rose from the faultless trunk of her body, no whiter than her wonderful hands and arms.
Her pearl-embroidered shoes lay at the foot of the couch, and her beautiful bare foot, purer and whiter than marble, extended from beneath the light covering of byssus which had been thrown over her.
Then he nodded, and Mary turned and gathered the jewels from the cloth of byssus where they lay.
The tetrarch's table was spread with a cloth of byssus striped with Laconian green.
Czermak have proved that byssus is linen, not cotton.
When all was finished, the corpse was left 70 days in a solution of soda, and then wrapped in bandages of byssus spread over with gum.
Their songs and dances, while seeking the body of Osiris, were strangely plaintive and touching, and the girls accompanied the dance by waving black Byssus scarfs in wonderfully graceful curves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "byssus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
