LORICATE

v. a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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

2.
a.

Covered with a shell or exterior made of plates somewhat like a coat of mail, as in the armadillo.

3.
n.

An animal covered with bony scales, as crocodiles among reptiles, and the pangolins among mammals.


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