a. [Formed as LORICATE a. + -ED1.] Protected by a covering of plates or scales, or of other matter; armed with a lorica; Zool. = LORICATE a.

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1623.  Cockeram, II. A ¶ ij b. Armed with a coate of defence. Loricated.

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1698.  Fryer, Acc. E. India & P., 7. The Bark of an Ash colour, loricated.

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1795.  Smith, in Phil. Trans., LXXXV. 268. The imbricated or loricated appearance of the scales which cover part of the sclerotic coat of the eye.

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1834.  Planché, Brit. Costume, 17. Three loricated bands with three commanders wearing golden torques.

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1871.  Huxley, Anat. Vert. Anim., i. 44. In the Mammalia the development of a dermal exoskeleton is exceptional, and occurs only in the loricated Edentata.

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1875.  Blake, Zool., 52. The dermal bony armour of the Armadillos like that of loricated Saurians.

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1884.  Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci., July, 336. Each of these groups is sub-divided into a loricated and an il-loricated family.

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