| NOUN | animal | sea cradle, chiton, coat-of-mail shell, polyplacophore | primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates |
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| Meaning | Primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates. | |
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| Synonyms | chiton, coat-of-mail shell, 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 | |
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