chiton

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

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:
       {chiton}, {coat-of-mail shell}, {sea cradle},
       {polyplacophore}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Chiton \Chi"ton\, n. [Gr. ? a chiton (in sense 1).]
   1. An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly
      representing the modern shirt.
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   2. (Zool.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell
      composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See
      {Polyplacophora}.
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