byssine

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

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈsiːn/

byssine (comparative more byssine, superlative most byssine)

1. Made of, or resembling, silk; silken.

• “byssine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

byssine

1. vocative masculine singular of byssinus