Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun chiton

2 senses of chiton

Sense 1
chiton -- (a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece)
       => tunic -- (any of a variety of loose fitting cloaks extending to the hips or knees)

Sense 2
chiton, coat-of-mail shell, sea cradle, polyplacophore -- (primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates)
       => mollusk, mollusc, shellfish -- (invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell)