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单词 chiton
释义

chiton

/ˈkʌɪtɒn / /ˈkʌɪt(ə)n/
noun
1A 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.
  • Class Polyplacophora.
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.

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