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SEA CRADLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates
Synonyms:
chiton; coat-of-mail shell; polyplacophore; sea cradle
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sea cradle" is a kind of...):
mollusc; mollusk; shellfish (invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell)
Holonyms ("sea cradle" is a member of...):
genus Chiton (a genus of Polyplacophora)
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