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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece;

2. primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates;
[syn: chiton, coat-of-mail shell, sea cradle, polyplacophore]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Chiton \Chi"ton\, n. [Gr. ? a chiton (in sense 1).] 1. An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

chiton n 1: a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece 2: primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates [syn: chiton, coat-of-mail shell, sea cradle, polyplacophore]