loricate

To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates.

Adjective

  1. Possessing a lorica (enclosing shell).
    • ...so far as my experience goes, all loricate Rotifera are hatched with the lorica already developed. - 1887 P.H.Gosse. Twelve New Species of Rotifera. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. June 1887. Transactions...
    • 1891 William B.Carpenter, 7th ed rev. W.H.Dallinger. The Microscope and its Revelations. p. 718. pub: London J.&A. Churchill The third order, Ploïma, is divided into a loricate and an illoricate group, which are not,...

    Synonyms: shelled

    Antonyms: aloricate

  2. Of or pertaining to the rotifers with thick, rigid cuticles and a box-like shape.

    Antonyms: aloricate

Origin

First attested in 1826; borrowed from Latin lōrīcātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix).

Derived

aloricate illoricate nonloricate

Noun

  1. Any animal covered with bony scales, such as the crocodile or pangolin.

Forms

loricates

Verb

  1. To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates.

Origin

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin lōricātus, perfect passive participle of lōrīcō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from lōrica (“a coat of mail or breastplate”).

Forms

loricates loricating loricated

Related

lorication