Loricate

Quick meaning: Loricate is a verb meaning (transitive) To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (microbiology) Possessing a lorica (enclosing shell).
2. (zoology) Of or pertaining to the rotifers with thick, rigid cuticles and a box-like shape.
3. (zoology) Any animal covered with bony scales, such as the crocodile or pangolin.

Example Sentences

...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.

Word Forms

• loricates
• loricating
• loricated

Synonyms for loricate

Depending on context, synonyms include shelled.

Antonyms for loricate

Common opposites include aloricate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include encrust, implate, rime, crust, incrust, overclad.

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