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GENUS CHITON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of Polyplacophora
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Chiton" is a kind of...):
mollusk genus (a genus of mollusks)
Meronyms (members of "genus Chiton"):
chiton; coat-of-mail shell; polyplacophore; sea cradle (primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates)
Holonyms ("genus Chiton" is a member of...):
class Polyplacophora; Polyplacophora (small class of marine mollusks comprising the chitons; sometimes considered an order of the subclass Amphineura)
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