Now, the ordinary simple Ionic chiton would be oblong in shape when not worn, so that we may take the others, which are not described as oblong, to be chitons with separate sleeve-pieces attached.
This expression is usually taken to mean that the characteristic difference between the Doric and Ionic chitons is, that the Doric is fastened by means of pins or brooches, the Ionic is always sewn on the shoulders.
These chitons are flattened mollusks protected by an armature of eight crosswise plates, overlapping like shingles, which creep about the rocks close to shore, and when lifted curl up like sowbugs.
The second class, Amphineura, contains the chitons and their relatives.
For preservation as cabinet specimens, chitons should be tied down between two boards or flat substances, to hold them firmly extended until dried; otherwise they are apt to contract out of shape.
The largest of all the chitons inhabits the California shores and is known as ^Cryptochiton stelleri^.
Stately priests in long chitonspaced to the music of flutes.
Under their armor they wore short chitons with fringe at the bottom, and long sleeves, and they carried strangely shaped shields and short spears or long lances.
The Gorgons are always rendered in grotesque fashion, with grinning faces and dishevelled hair intertwined with serpents; they wear short girt chitons and high winged boots, and have four wings, the upper pair recurved; usually on B.
Hekate has torches for her customary attribute, and the Furies, who only occur on South Italian vases, wear short chitons with cross-belts and have rough hair, in which and round their arms serpents are intertwined.
Thus the independent metamerism of certain organs in the Chitonsis not primitive but acquired within the group: e.
Originally theChitons were placed with the limpets, Patella, in Cuvier's Cyclobranchia, an order of the Gastropoda.
Seen anything of Jimmy Price--a kid, but about my height, with brown hair and a devilish disposition?
A number of chitons were examined, but with negative results.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chitons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
