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Chiton

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Noun

1. chiton

a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece

2. chiton, coat-of-mail shell, polyplacophore, sea cradle

primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Chiton

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noun
1. 
(in ancient Greece and Rome) a loose woollen tunic worn knee length by men and full length by women
2. Also called: coat-of-mail shell
any small primitive marine mollusc of the genus Chiton and related genera, having an elongated body covered with eight overlapping shell plates: class Amphineura

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Chiton

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noun
1. 
a loose garment of varying length, similar to a tunic, worn by both men and women in ancient Greece
2. 
any of a class (Polyplacophora) of mostly small, ovoid marine mollusks, having a dorsal shell consisting of eight articulating calcareous plates and a ventral foot

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Chiton

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n.
1. Any of various marine mollusks of the class Polyplacophora that live on rocks and have shells consisting of eight overlapping calcareous plates. Also called sea cradle.
2. A tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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