Meaning of Chiton | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A loose woolen tunic worn by men and women in Ancient Greece.
   historical
2. Any of various rock-clinging marine molluscs of the class Polyplacophora, including the genus Chiton.

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Examples

“On the night of our first attempt⟳, we simply overdrank and passed out in our chitons in the woods near Francis’s house.”

“She wears a diaphanous himation that covers her torso, over a floor-length chiton of heavier fabric.”

“She wears a chiton and himation, using both hands to hold⟳ the edge of the latter, in which she has gathered apples.”

“In the giant chiton, Cryptochiton, this girdle has expanded so as to completely cover⟳ the plates.”

“The chiton (Fig. 14.1 a) is depressed (dorso-ventrally flattened), with a large foot which has a flat sole.”

“The bright orange gumboot chiton (Cryptochiton stelleri) is the largest in the world.”

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