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/ˈlɒɹɪkeɪt/ · verb
(transitive) To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates..
...so far as my experience goes, all loricate Rotifera are hatched with the lorica already developed.
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, however, very sharply separated; as in some cases the outer layer of the skin is, though horny, yet thin and flexible.
Use loricate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Loricate means (transitive) To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates..
Common synonyms include shelled.
Possible antonyms include aloricate.
...so far as my experience goes, all loricate Rotifera are hatched with the lorica already developed.
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