chiton

Other forms: chitons

Definitions of chiton

1. noun

   a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece
   type of:

   tunic

   any of a variety of loose fitting cloaks extending to the hips or knees
2. noun

   primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates
   synonyms: coat-of-mail shell, polyplacophore, sea cradle

   type of:

   mollusc, mollusk, shellfish

   invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell