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[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]