adjective
- covered with or having a lorica (a hard protective covering, shell, or armor-like structure)
Usage: technical/scientific; biology: used to describe organisms with a hard outer covering
Examples
- The loricated rotifer has a rigid outer casing that protects it from predators.
- Loricated organisms often have reduced mobility due to their heavy protective shells.
- The fossil showed a loricated exoskeleton typical of ancient arthropods.
- Some loricated species can retract completely into their protective coverings.