How To Use Byssus In A Sentence
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In Ave byssus castitatis, up to the last line the words are in alphabetical order.
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On the day of the experiment, the shell was opened, the anterior byssus retractor muscle was exposed, and the pedal ganglia removed.
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The illustration shows a rare species, several specimens of which were found attached to the mooring-chain of a buoy by what is known as the "byssus," a bunch of tough fibres which passes through an hiatus in the margins of the valves.
Tropic Days
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Chromis abyssus – a beautiful species of damselfish made it to the top 10 representing the first taxonomic act of 2008 and the first act registered in the newly launched taxonomic database Zoobank.
Top 10 New Species | Impact Lab
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The word denotes Egyptian linen of peculiar whiteness and fineness (byssus).
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If we understand it of thread, it may refer to the byssus or fine flax for which Egypt was famous; but I do not see on what authority we translate it linen thread.
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In large part, moving food along the alimentary tract is a matter of smooth muscle functioning, and Pavlov decided to investigate the byssus retractor, the smooth muscle that Mytilus edulis, the common mussel, uses to close its shell.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
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The strength of the entire byssus is expected to be proportional to the number of threads times the average strength of each thread.
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Then comes a period of rest, obtained by using the long thread or 'byssus' (B) as a float, this thread being thrown out along the surface of the water.
Chatterbox, 1906
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Before serving them to the knots, we put the mussels through a mesh to break the byssus threads that held them together and to sort them by size.
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Mussels anchor themselves in the inter-tidal zone by means of a thatch of tough proteinaceous fibers called the byssus, or “beard.”
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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By the time the shells are mature, they have lost the byssus anchor and are found loose on the ocean floor.
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The individual cages allowed the transfer of mussels to respirometry chambers without severing their byssus.
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The primary source of this variation is not the number of threads present in the byssus, but rather, their thickness.
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The soft parts of bivalves are divided into five groups: mantle or pallium, gills, foot and byssus, muscles, and visceral mass.
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Further details on byssus formation mostly in the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis, can be found in numerous reviews on the subject.
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Exactly how these proteins link together to give the material, called byssus, its strength has remained unclear.
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Limnoperna fortunei can attach to the inner walls of raw water pipe by thread-like byssus and reproduced rapidly, resulting in clogging of pipe and valves.
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Aquila In nubibus Imperator literatorum, columen literarum, abyssus eruditionis, ocellus Europae, Scaliger.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Linen fabrics (Byssus) were as marketable in China as were silk fabrics in the west.
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The byssus is unknown to us, but the stuffs of Lyons are more valuable.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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These strategically placed threads form a bundle called the byssus, which tethers the mussel to its new home in much the same way that guy ropes hold down a tent.
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