Byssus is valid Scrabble Word

Is byssus a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is byssus valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for BYSSUS in dictionary:

NOUN:

a filamentous tuft by which molluscs attach themselves to rocks; a fine flax and fabric woven from it
a fine textile fibre and fabric of flax.
a tuft of tough silky filaments by which mussels and some other bivalves adhere to rocks and other objects.
mass of threads that attaches an animal to a hard surface
A cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients. It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk.
A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the valves of certain bivalve mollusks, as the Pinna and Mytilus, by which they attach themselves to rocks, etc.
An obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender threads.
Asbestus.
tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a fine linen

Words related to BYSSUS

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Words that contain BYSSUS

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How to use BYSSUS in a sentence

He did not carry away more than ten at each plunge, for he was obliged to pull them from the bank to which they adhered by means of their strong byssus.
From her shoulders fell a long full robe of purple byssus, over an underdress of white which readied the knee.
Once I had to flee naked from my country, and now I am the possessor of splendid raiment, and of apparel made of the finest byssus.
And for my personal use they sent to me five pieces of byssus, each sufficiently large to make a suit of raiment, a sack of lentils, and five vessels full of dried fish.

Similar words containing BYSSU without suffix s

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