GENUS CHITON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Chiton mean? 

• GENUS CHITON (noun)
  The noun GENUS CHITON has 1 sense:

1. a genus of Polyplacophora

  Familiarity information: GENUS CHITON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CHITON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of Polyplacophora

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Chiton" is a kind of...):

mollusk genus (a genus of mollusks)

Meronyms (members of "genus Chiton"):

chiton; coat-of-mail shell; polyplacophore; sea cradle (primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates)

Holonyms ("genus Chiton" is a member of...):

class Polyplacophora; Polyplacophora (small class of marine mollusks comprising the chitons; sometimes considered an order of the subclass Amphineura)