loricate

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  1. To cover with any material that serves as a protection or defense. See lorica. Therefore hath Nature loricated or plaistred over the Sides of the forementioned Hole [the inner ear] with Earwax, to stop and entangle any Insects that should attempt to creep in. Ray, Works of Creation, ii. 264. In the Mammalia the development of a dermal exoskeleton is exceptional, and occurs only in the loricated Edentata. Huxley, Anat. Vert., p. 42.
  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.
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  • Lecane - Rotifers of this genus are mostly loricate (having shells) and live in littoral areas of freshwater bodies.
  • Mytilina - Species belonging to this genus are loricate and are found mostly in littoral habitats.
  • Trichocerca - These loricate rotifers are found in many habitats.
 

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  1. from Latin loricatus, past participle of loricare, clothe in mail, from lorica, a corselet, coat of mail: see lorica.
  2. from Latin loricatus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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