loricate — Dicionário de inglês

Verbo

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

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Palavras relacionadas

   lorication

Adjetivo

1. Possessing a lorica (enclosing shell).

   Uso

   • not-comparable

   Sinônimos

   shelled

   Antônimos

   aloricate

   Exemplos

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

   Mais exemplos (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

   Antônimos

   aloricate

Substantivo

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