a. [f. as TUNICATE a. + -ED1.] † a. Clad in a coat or tunic (obs. rare0). b. = TUNICATE a.
1623. Cockeram, II. One Wearing a Coate, tunicated.
1744. J. Wilson, Synopsis Brit. Pl., 256. Garlick hath a bulbous tunicated root.
1760. J. Lee, Introd. Bot., II. xxxi. (1765), 152. Iris, with a tunicated Bulb.
1828. J. E. Smith, Eng. Flora, II. 1. Chenopodium. Seed lenticular, tunicated, superior.
1840. F. D. Bennett, Whaling Voy., II. 322. Fishes, shell-fish, and tunicated molluscs have their luminous matter deposited beneath a dense integument.
1861. Bentley, Man. Bot. (1870), 110. There are two kinds of bulbs commonly distinguished by botanists, the tunicated, and the scaly.