Noun: chiton kI-t(u)n
- A woollen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece
"The statue depicted a Greek philosopher wearing a flowing chiton"
- Primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates
"The chiton clung tightly to the rock face";
- coat-of-mail shell, sea cradle, polyplacophore
Derived forms: chitons
Type of: mollusc, mollusk [N. Amer], shellfish, tunic
Part of: genus Chiton
Encyclopedia: Chiton, South Australia