COAT-OF-MAIL SHELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coat-of-mail shell mean? 

• COAT-OF-MAIL SHELL (noun)
  The noun COAT-OF-MAIL SHELL has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: COAT-OF-MAIL SHELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COAT-OF-MAIL SHELL (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("coat-of-mail shell" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("coat-of-mail shell" is a member of...):

genus Chiton (a genus of Polyplacophora)