Chiton

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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:
           {coat-of-mail shell}, {sea cradle}, {polyplacophore}]