Associations to the word «Chiton»

Pictures for the word «Chiton»

Wiktionary

CHITON, noun. A loose, woolen tunic, worn by both men and women in Ancient Greece.
CHITON, noun. Any of various rock-clinging marine molluscs of the class Polyplacophora, including the genus Chiton.
CHITON, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Chitonidae   — certain polyplacophoran molluscs.

Dictionary definition

CHITON, noun. A woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece.
CHITON, noun. Primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats