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Definition of Loricata
1. Noun. Former name for the order Crocodylia.
Definition of Loricata
1. n. pl. A suborder of edentates, covered with bony plates, including the armadillos.
Medical Definition of Loricata
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Loricata
Literary usage of Loricata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"E loricata. The larvae of the loricata hatch in a form long known as the ...
That this form belonged to the ontogeny of the loricata was first rendered ..."
2. Zoology: Being a Systematic Account of the General Structure, Habits by William Benjamin Carpenter (1857)
"loricata. 487. THE animals forming this order, the Crocodiles and Alligators,
are placed by some naturalists with the Lizards, with which, in fact, ..."
3. The National Zoological Park: A Popular Account of Its Collections by Ned Hollister (1919)
"These are the turtles and tortoises (Testudinata), alligators and
crocodiles (loricata), and the lizards and snakes (Squamata). ..."
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