Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a mantle. Used of mollusks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Provided with a mantle or pallium, as a mollusk; palliate: the opposite of
achlamydate . The chlamydate Branchiogasteropods are usually provided with branchiæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having a mantle; -- applied to certain gastropods.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Having a
mantle orfringe
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin chlamydātus, cloaked, from chlamys, chlamyd-, mantle; see chlamys.]
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