Tiny fibers called byssals enable mussels—the shellfish kind—to anchor themselves to coastlines despite crashing ocean waves.
除了海浪的拍打,贻贝能在海岸线抛锚还要靠一种叫做足丝的微小纤维。
英语百科
Byssus
A byssus/ˈbɪsəs/ is a bundle of filaments secreted by many species of bivalve mollusc, that function to attach the mollusc to a solid surface. Species from several families of clams have a byssus, including the pen shells, the true mussels and the false mussels: the Pinnidae, the Mytilidae and the Dreissenidae.