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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
chiton /ˈkʌɪtɒn, -t(ə)n/

▶noun

1 a long woollen tunic worn in ancient Greece.

2 a marine mollusc that has an oval flattened body with a shell of overlapping plates. [Chiton and other genera, class Polyplacophora.]

– origin from Gk khitōn ‘tunic’.

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