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chitinous |
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chiton
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| chittam bark
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chiton
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun chiton has 2 senses
- chiton(n = noun.artifact) Array - a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece; Array is a kind of tunic
- chiton(n = noun.animal) coat-of-mail shell, polyplacophore, sea cradle - primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates; Array is a kind of mollusc, mollusk, shellfish
is a member of genus chiton
CIDE DICTIONARY
chiton, n. [Gr. a chiton (in sense 1).].
- An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt. [1913 Webster]
- One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
chiton, n.
1 a long woollen tunic worn by ancient Greeks.
2 any marine mollusc of the class Amphineura, having a shell of overlapping plates.
1 a long woollen tunic worn by ancient Greeks.
2 any marine mollusc of the class Amphineura, having a shell of overlapping plates.
Etymology
Gk khiton tunic
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