chiton

2 definitions found

chiton - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

chiton - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  chiton
      n 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 [syn:
         chiton, coat-of-mail shell, sea cradle,
         polyplacophore]