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Definition of Loricates
1. loricate [n] - See also: loricate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loricates
Literary usage of Loricates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by John William Dawson (1877)
"... their affinities, they must have had circulatory, respiratory, and nervous
systems far in advance of any modern reptiles even of the order of loricates. ..."
2. Our Search for a Wilderness: An Account of Two Ornithological Expeditions to by Blair Niles, William Beebe (1910)
"Most curious of all were the loricates or armored catfish, with a double row of
large overlapping scales enclosing their body from head to tail ..."
3. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"Loricate, loricates. [L., provided with ¡ breastplate.] (Zoo/.) The fourth ord.
of reptiles protected by bony plates. (Herpetology. ..."
4. Archaia; or, Studies of the cosmogony and natural history of the Hebrew by John William Dawson (1860)
"... their affinities, they must have had circulatory, respiratory, and nervous
systems far in advance of any modern reptiles even of the order of loricates. ..."
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