Usually means: Cover or encase with armor.
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  1. loricate: Merriam-Webster
  2. loricate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. loricate: Collins English Dictionary
  4. loricate: Wordnik
  5. loricate: Wiktionary
  6. loricate: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Loricate, loricate: Dictionary.com
  8. Loricate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. loricate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Loricate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. loricate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. loricate: FreeDictionary.org
  13. loricate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. Loricate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. loricate: A Word A Day

Definitions from Wiktionary (loricate)

verb:  (transitive) To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates.
adjective:  (microbiology) Possessing a lorica (enclosing shell).
adjective:  (zoology) Of or pertaining to the rotifers with thick, rigid cuticles and a box-like shape.
noun:  (zoology) Any animal covered with bony scales, such as the crocodile or pangolin.

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