βύσσος, ἡ,
flax, and the linen made from it, [[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 93, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.73, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; used of perennial flax, Linum angustifolium, grown in Elis, [[ 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 6.26.6 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+], and of Linum usitatissimum, ={λίνον Ἑβραίων}, [[ [prev. author] 5.5.2 ] Refs]; also, in later writers, of Indian cotton, Gossypium herbaceum, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 7.76, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 2.20 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; and of silk, τὰ Σηρικὰ ἔκ τινων φλοιῶν ξαινουένης βύσσου [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 15.1.20. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]