1. having a hard protective covering or shell
Usage: biology; zoology

1. to cover with or as if with armor or a protective shell
Usage: formal; rare

Examples

• The loricate beetle’s hard shell protected it from predators.
• Many crustaceans are loricate creatures with tough exoskeletons.
• The armadillo is a well-known loricate mammal.
• Ancient warriors would loricate themselves before battle.
• The turtle’s loricate shell provides excellent defense.
• Scientists studied the loricate structure of the fossil.
• The insect’s loricate covering gleamed in the sunlight.