NOUN
- primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates
- a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece
How To Use chiton In A Sentence
- All were available in plain or patinated brass or copper, and they included a variety of shells, such as Philippine, chiton, limpet, melon, triton, sea conch, and nautilus.
- Both Isidore and Feodor were clad in simple chitons that showed off their large, muscular arms.
- Isidore's face was pale and he quickly recovered, dusting his chiton.
- We do have pages on the Solenogastres and the worm-like Caudofoveata, as well as the chitons and some early shelled mollusks, the Rostroconchia.
- Ajax, in the archaic attitude of the ‘kneeling race’, with helmet, jambeaus and armour from which his chiton emerges, is intent on carrying the lifeless body of Achilles, naked and with his long hair falling towards the ground.
- In some chitons, the radula has teeth tipped with magnetite, which hardens them.
- Carelessly, I stripped myself of my chiton and my sandals.
- We describe the oldest chiton, which is the oldest animal fossil, the oldest evidence for the trilobite ancestor; we believe we've solved the Shonisaur murder mystery; and now we're announcing the identity of this serial killer, the Triassic kraken. NPR Topics: News
- She pulled her arm loose and began to unpin the chiton. Aching for Always
- Most chitons feed by rasping algae and other encrusted food off of the rocks on which they crawl.
