loricate — Diccionario de inglés

Verbo

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

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Palabras relacionadas

   lorication

Adjetivo

1. Possessing a lorica (enclosing shell).

   Uso

   • not-comparable

   Sinónimos

   shelled

   Antónimos

   aloricate

   Ejemplos

   ...so far as my experience goes, all loricate Rotifera are hatched with the lorica already developed.

   Más ejemplos (1)

   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.

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

   Uso

   • not-comparable

   Antónimos

   aloricate

Sustantivo

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