loricate

Meanings

Verb

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

Adjective

• Possessing a lorica (enclosing shell).
• Of or pertaining to the rotifers with thick, rigid cuticles and a box-like shape.

Noun

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

Origin

• An adaptation of lōrīcāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin lōrīcō.
• An adaptation of Latin lōrīcātus.