CHITON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chiton mean? 

• CHITON (noun)
  The noun CHITON has 2 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: CHITON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHITON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chiton" is a kind of...):

tunic (any of a variety of loose fitting cloaks extending to the hips or knees)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

chiton; coat-of-mail shell; polyplacophore; sea cradle

Hypernyms ("chiton" is a kind of...):

mollusc; mollusk; shellfish (invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell)

Holonyms ("chiton" is a member of...):

genus Chiton (a genus of Polyplacophora)