Translingual

Chiton olivaceus

Proper noun

Chiton m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Chitonidae – certain polyplacophoran molluscs.

Hyponyms

• (genus): Chiton aereus, Chiton affinis, Chiton albolineatus, Chiton aorangi, Chiton articulatus, Chiton baliensis, Chiton barnardi, Chiton bednalli, Chiton boucheti, Chiton bowenii, Chiton burmanus, Chiton calliozonus, Chiton canaliculatus, Chiton canariensis, Chiton carnosus, Chiton ceylanicus, Chiton connectens, Chiton corallinus, Chiton corypheus, Chiton coxi, Chiton crawfordi, Chiton cumingsii, Chiton densiliratus, Chiton diaphorus, Chiton discolor, Chiton ectypus, Chiton exasperatus, Chiton exoptandus, Chiton fosteri, Chiton funereus, Chiton glaucus, Chiton granoradiatus, Chiton granosus, Chiton groschi, Chiton heterodon, Chiton hululensis, Chiton jugosus, Chiton kaasi, Chiton kimberi, Chiton komaianus, Chiton kurodai, Chiton laterorugosus, Chiton latricus, Chiton linsleyi, Chiton lyratus, Chiton magnificus, Chiton maldivensis, Chiton marmoratus, Chiton marquesanus, Chiton mauritianus, Chiton olivaceus, Chiton oruktus, Chiton particolor, Chiton pelliserpentis, Chiton peregrinus, Chiton perviridis, Chiton phaseolinus, Chiton politus, Chiton pulcherrimus, Chiton pulchrus, Chiton pulvinatus, Chiton rapaitiensis, Chiton rhynchotus, Chiton salihafui, Chiton speciosus, Chiton squamosus, Chiton stangeri, Chiton stokesii, Chiton subassimilis, Chiton tectiformis, Chiton themeropis, Chiton torri, Chiton torrianus, Chiton translucens, Chiton tricostalis, Chiton tuberculatus, Chiton vauclusensis, Chiton venustus, Chiton verconis, Chiton virgulatus, Chiton viridis, Chiton whitleyi (species)

See also

• Chiton (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chiton on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Chiton on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

A woman wearing a chiton (left), and two women with a himation over a chiton (right).

Noun

chiton ‎(plural chitons)

1. A loose, woolen tunic, worn by both men and women in Ancient Greece.
   • 1992, Donna Tartt, The Secret History,

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

   • 1998, Colette Susan Czapski, NM238: A Hellenistic Statue and Its Archaistic Support, Kim J. Hartswick, Mary Carol Sturgeon (editors), Stephanos: Studies in Honor of Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, page 53,

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

   • 2002, Nikolaos Kaltsas (editor), Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, page 156,

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

See also

• Chiton (costume) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Translations

References

• American Heritage Dictionary (fourth edition, 2000) entry on the chiton

Etymology 2

A chiton, Cryptochiton stelleri

From New Latin chiton. See above.

Noun

chiton ‎(plural chitons)

1. Any of various rock-clinging marine molluscs of the class Polyplacophora, including the genus Chiton.
   • 1969, Sam Hinton, Seashore Life of Southern California, page 72,

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

   • 1979, R. McNeill Alexander, The Invertebrates, page 295,

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

   • 1996, Paul Henson, The Natural History of Big Sur, page 70,

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

Synonyms

• (mollusc): coat-of-mail shell, loricate, polyplacophoran, polyplacophore, sea cradle

See also

• chiton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

Anagrams

• ONCHIT