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Definition of Loricate
1. v. t. To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates.
2. a. Covered with a shell or exterior made of plates somewhat like a coat of mail, as in the armadillo.
3. n. An animal covered with bony scales, as crocodiles among reptiles, and the pangolins among mammals.
Definition of Loricate
1. Adjective. (microbiology) Possessing an enclosing shell or test. ¹
2. Adjective. (zoology) Of or pertaining to the Loricata, a group of rotifers. ¹
3. Noun. (zoology) Any animal covered with bony scales, such as the crocodile or pangolin. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Loricate
1. an animal having a lorica [n -S]
Medical Definition of Loricate
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Loricate
Literary usage of Loricate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate by William Saville-Kent (1880)
"In all the loricate species the sheath or lorica is in its earliest state soft
and gelatinous, this transient state, considerably exaggerated, ..."
2. Dictionary of Geology and Mineralogy: Comprising Such Terms in Botany by William Humble (1843)
"To the presence of one species of volvox, the volvox globator, a loricate«!
animalcule, and to its great abundance in such situations, pools of stagnant ..."
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