'Chiton' definitions:
Definition of 'chiton'
(from WordNet)
noun
A woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece
noun
Primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates [syn: chiton, coat-of-mail shell, sea cradle, polyplacophore]
Definition of 'Chiton'
From: GCIDE
- Chiton \Chi"ton\, n. [Gr. ? a chiton (in sense 1).]
- 1. An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora. [1913 Webster]