Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun coat-of-mail_shell
1 sense of coat-of-mail shell
Sense 1
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)