chiton
1. a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece • Hypernyms: tunic 2. primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates • Syn: coat-of-mail shell, sea cradle, polyplacophore • Hypernyms: mollusk, mollusc, shellfish • Member Holonyms: genus Chiton
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