Definition of Loricates

1. Noun. (plural of loricate) ¹

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Definition of Loricates

1. loricate [n] - See also: loricate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Loricates

loresmen
lorette
lorettes
lorettine
lorgnette
lorgnettes
lorgnon
lorgnons
lori
loric
lorica
loricae
loricata
loricate
loricated
loricates
lorication
lorications
loriciferan
loriciferans
lorics
lories
lorikeet
lorikeets
lorimer
lorimers
loriner
loriners
loring
lorings

Literary usage of Loricates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by John William Dawson (1877)
"... their affinities, they must have had circulatory, respiratory, and nervous systems far in advance of any modern reptiles even of the order of Loricates. ..."

2. Our Search for a Wilderness: An Account of Two Ornithological Expeditions to by Blair Niles, William Beebe (1910)
"Most curious of all were the Loricates or armored catfish, with a double row of large overlapping scales enclosing their body from head to tail ..."

3. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"Loricate, Loricates. [L., provided with ¡ breastplate.] (Zoo/.) The fourth ord. of reptiles protected by bony plates. (Herpetology. ..."

4. Archaia; or, Studies of the cosmogony and natural history of the Hebrew by John William Dawson (1860)
"... their affinities, they must have had circulatory, respiratory, and nervous systems far in advance of any modern reptiles even of the order of Loricates. ..."

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