coat-of-mail_shell (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *coat-of-mail shell*:
NOUN	animal	coat-of-mail shell, chiton, sea cradle, polyplacophore	primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates

English > *coat-of-mail shell*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	Primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates.
Synonyms	chiton, sea cradle, polyplacophore
Member of	genus Chiton	A genus of Polyplacophora
Broader	mollusk, mollusc, shellfish	invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
Spanish	poliplacóforo
Catalan	poliplacòfor

HyperDic: coat-of-mail_shell