From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chiton \Chi"ton\, noun [Gr. ? a chiton (in sense 1).]
1. An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.
2. (Zo["o]l.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See {Polyplacophora}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
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}]
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