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Byssus
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Byssus est filamentum a multis molluscis productum ut ad superficiem duram adhaereant. Byssus molluscorum edulium a coquis reicitur; byssus autem Pinnae nobilis specierumque aliquarum aliarum ab hominibus adhibetur ad pannos teneres "byssinos" texendos.
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