loricate

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To cover with any material that serves as a protection or defense. See lorica.
2. Covered with defensive armor or with any defensive covering.
3. 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.
4. Having a lorica; loricated; inclosed in a shell, case, or some hard covering resembling a corselet or coat of mail.
5. n. A loricated animal; a member of the Loricata in any sense.

Wiktionary

1. adj. microbiology Possessing an enclosing shell or test.
2. adj. zoology Of or pertaining to the Loricata, a group of rotifers.
3. n. zoology Any animal covered with bony scales, such as the crocodile or pangolin.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute{1}, a crust, coating, or plates.
2. adj. Covered with a shell or exterior made of plates somewhat like a coat of mail, as in the armadillo.
3. n. (Zoöl.) An animal covered with bony scales, as crocodiles among reptiles, and the pangolins among mammals.