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Webster 1913 Edition


Chiton


Chi′ton

,
Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK] a chiton (in sense 1).]
1.
An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.
2.
(Zool.)
One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See
Polyplacophora
.