byssiferousadj.
/bɪˈsɪfərəs/ Zoology.
Furnished (as a shellfish) with a byssus (sense 3).
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pedal1625
sinistral1803
lingual1826
byssiferous1835
pallial1836
metapodal1853
byssal1854
boreal1856
branchio-parietal1856
odontophorous1870
odontophoral1877
branchio-pallial1880
lentigerous1883
osphradial1883
pleurecbolic1883
pleurembolic1883
byssogenous1886
ctenidial1888
metapodial1890
pseudofaecal1953
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 702/1 The group of byssiferous Dimyaria.
1875 C. C. Blake Zoology 269 The foot is cylindrical, grooved and byssiferous.
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adj.1835