Loricate

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  • adj. Possessing an enclosing shell or test.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the Loricata, a group of rotifers.
  • n. Any animal covered with bony scales, such as the crocodile or pangolin.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute{1}, a crust, coating, or plates.
  • adj. Covered with a shell or exterior made of plates somewhat like a coat of mail, as in the armadillo.
  • n. An animal covered with bony scales, as crocodiles among reptiles, and the pangolins among mammals.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cover with any material that serves as a protection or defense. See lorica.
  • Covered with defensive armor or with any defensive covering.
  • Consisting of overlapping plates; having a pattern as of overlapping plates; imbricated: an epithet arising from the mistaken idea that the lorica was essentially an imbricated coat.
  • Having a lorica; loricated; inclosed in a shell, case, or some hard covering resembling a corselet or coat of mail.
  • n. A loricated animal; a member of the Loricata in any sense.
    • Word Usage
    "Behind him, to his left, stood a larger than life-sized loricate statue of “Dama Balboa,” the personification of the nation and the Republic."
    Cross Reference
    loricate femora   
    Form
    loricated    loricating   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    shelled   
     
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