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Bizarre words beginning with B part 4

byssaceous [bɪ'seɪʃəs]. Made of a mass of fine threads. This word is (occasionally) used to describe cloth (originally flax or linen, later also cotton or silk) but can also be used to describe fungi with particularly thin stems, and molluscs which attach themselves to the seabed using long, fine filaments.

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