1. loricate - Noun
2. loricate - Adjective
3. loricate - Verb
To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates.
Covered with a shell or exterior made of plates somewhat like a coat of mail, as in the armadillo.
An animal covered with bony scales, as crocodiles among reptiles, and the pangolins among mammals.
Source: Webster's dictionary