单词 | loricate |
释义 | loricateadj.n. Zoology. A. adj. Covered with ‘armour’ or adjoining plates or scales; having a lorica. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a hard protective covering > having scales scaleda1400 scaly1528 plateda1560 squamy1592 squamigerous1656 squamose1661 shielded1662 squamous1668 squamated1752 scutated1802 loricate1826 scutate1826 squamate1826 scutulate1827 loricated1871 scutulated1885 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 347 Loricate (Loricatum). When the disk of the thigh appears covered with a double series of oblique scales like a coat of mail. 1843 R. Owen Lect. Compar. Anat. Invertebr. Animals 34 The loricate genera are Noteus, Anuræa [etc.]. 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 33 In the loricate [reptiles] a neurocentral suture is permanent. B. n. plural. [representing modern Latin Loricati or Loricata.] Categories » a. A small group of edentate mammals, including the pangolin and the armadillo. b. A group of reptiles comprising the alligators, crocodiles, and gavials. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Crocodilia (crocodiles and alligators) > [noun] loricate1855 1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. Loricata, Loricates, an order of reptiles. 1877 J. W. Dawson Origin of World xv. 338 Far in advance of any modern reptiles even of the order of Loricates. c. A group of infusorians protected by a test or shell. ΚΠ 1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. Loricata, Loricates, a group of polygastric animalcules. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). loricatev. transitive. To enclose in or cover with a protective coating. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > cover and protect shrouda1400 fortify1607 loricate1623 protect1839 cocoon1948 mask1961 sleeve1980 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Loricate, to arme one with a coat of defence. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 186 Therefore hath Nature loricated or plaistered over the sides of the forementioned Hole with Ear-wax. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Lorication When vessels are exposed to a fire too strong for their structure..they crack and burst; for the preventing of which the operator has recourse to this method of coating or loricating his vessels. 1818 in H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1826v.1623 |
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