a. Zool. [f. BYSS-US + -(I)FEROUS.] Furnished (as a shell-fish) with a byssus (sense 3).
1835–6. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 702/1. The group of byssiferous Dimyaria.
1875. Blake, Zool., 269. The foot is cylindrical, grooved and byssiferous.
