Usually means: Thread-like fibers from mollusks.
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  3. byssi: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  8. Byssi: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Byssi: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. byssi: FreeDictionary.org
  11. byssi: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See byssus as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (byssus)

noun:  The long fine silky filaments excreted by several mollusks (particularly Pinna nobilis) by which they attach themselves to the sea bed, and from which sea silk is manufactured.
noun:  Sea silk manufactured from these filaments.
noun:  (mycology) The stipe or stem of some fungi which are particularly thin and thread-like.
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