byssus meaning in Hindi

Noun
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The animals attach themselves to a solid substrate using a byssus.
Other paired muscles control the siphons and the byssus.
It prefers soft substrates and surrounds its shell in a dense mass of byssus.
The byssus is used by the clam to attach itself to the sea bed.
Byssus is eventually lost with adulthood, transitioning almost all scallop species into free swimmers.
In the Mediterranean area, material made from the holdfast or byssus of " Pinna nobilis"
Byssus is a remarkable adhesive, one that is neither degraded nor deformed by water as synthetic adhesives are.
Each one then crawls around until it finds a suitable location where it attaches itself with a byssus thread.
On sandy bottoms, aggregations were often attached to large sand grains that were glued together with byssus threads.
This silk or " byssus " are fine threads which historically was used to make special royal fabrics.

noun.

tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
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