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chiton /ˈkʌɪtɒn / /ˈkʌɪt(ə)n/noun1A long woollen tunic worn in ancient Greece.To begin the day the class dressed in their chitons and prepared for an Olympics....- Over the chiton, if you could afford it, a woollen cloak was worn, made from an oblong piece of cloth, usually simply draped around the body, sometimes pinned on one side.
- I pulled on a chiton and wrapped a himation around me since the day was cool.
2A marine mollusc that has an oval flattened body with a shell of overlapping plates. Also called coat-of-mail shell.A chiton has eight overlapping shell plates, and can, if dislodged, roll into a rough ball with its plates on the exterior....- We do have pages on the Solenogastres and the worm-like Caudofoveata, as well as the chitons and some early shelled mollusks, the Rostroconchia.
- Conchiferans are ‘all molluscs except chitons and aplacophorans’ - i.e. snails, cephalopods, etc.
Origin From Greek khitōn 'tunic'. sense 2 is a modern Latin genus name. |