Hypertext Webster Gateway: "chiton"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Chiton \Chi"ton\, n. [Gr. ? a chiton (in sense 1).]
1. An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly
representing the modern shirt.
2. (Zo["o]l.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a
shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See
{Polyplacophora}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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:
{coat-of-mail shell}, {sea cradle}, {polyplacophore}]
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