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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Chiton \Chi"ton\, n. [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 1.6 [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}]
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