chiton

UK /ˈkaɪtn̩/ US /ˈkaɪtn̩/

noun 2

Definitions

noun

A loose woolen tunic worn by men and women in Ancient Greece.

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.

noun

Any of various rock-clinging marine molluscs of the class Polyplacophora, including the genus Chiton.

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.

ADJ.

bright, giant, heavier, orange, over

VERB + CHITON

wears

CHITON + NOUN

cryptochiton, fabric, girdle, himation, stelleri

PREP.

noun — primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk h

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

Wiktionary

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

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

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

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

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

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