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Noun: coat-of-mail shell
  1. Primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates
    - chiton, sea cradle, polyplacophore

Derived forms: coat-of-mail shells

Type of: mollusc, mollusk, shellfish

Part of: genus Chiton