Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • 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.
  • noun A loricated animal; a member of the Loricata in any sense.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective microbiology Possessing an enclosing shell or test.
  • adjective zoology Of or pertaining to the Loricata, a group of rotifers.
  • noun zoology Any animal covered with bony scales, such as the crocodile or pangolin.

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Examples

  • Behind him, to his left, stood a larger than life-sized loricate statue of “Dama Balboa,” the personification of the nation and the Republic.

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010

  • Behind him, to his left, stood a larger than life-sized loricate statue of “Dama Balboa,” the personification of the nation and the Republic.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Fred Kiesche 2010

  • Trichocerca - These loricate rotifers are found in many habitats.

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  • Mytilina - Species belonging to this genus are loricate and are found mostly in littoral habitats.

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  • Lecane - Rotifers of this genus are mostly loricate (having shells) and live in littoral areas of freshwater bodies.

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  • Trichocerca - These loricate rotifers are found in many habitats.

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  • Mytilina - Species belonging to this genus are loricate and are found mostly in littoral habitats.

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  • Lecane - Rotifers of this genus are mostly loricate (having shells) and live in littoral areas of freshwater bodies.

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