Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology, a name having various applications. :
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural A suborder of edentates, covered with bony plates, including the armadillos.
- noun plural The crocodilia.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun former name for the order Crocodylia
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Examples
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Saddam Hussein would hide out in a cella loricata, or bunker, with a big ignivoma manuballista (gun) at his disposal.
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Among these were two kingfishers, Tanysiptera acis and Ceyx Cajeli; a beautiful sunbird, Nectarines proserpina; a handsome little black and white flycatcher, Monarcha loricata, whose swelling throat was beautifully scaled with metallic blue; and several of less interest.
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Among these were two kingfishers, Tanysiptera acis and Ceyx Cajeli; a beautiful sunbird, Nectarines proserpina; a handsome little black and white flycatcher, Monarcha loricata, whose swelling throat was beautifully scaled with metallic blue; and several of less interest.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Scom - bcr hnca lat€'aii curva ouinino loricata, caiida vix bifurcata.
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«T - Tcftudo major oblonga, tefta profundiori, cutc loricata, unguibus palmarum 5, plan -
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Traclni - 6, Sc. fpina dorfali rccumbcn - rus. te, linea laterali loricata.
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Mandibula utraque dentiuni parvorum fuhidatorum ordine armata; linca lateralis prima arcuata, a pinna inde dor - fidi poff. eriore reSiaj et loricata; cauda non carinata; pinna dorfalis prima triangidaris y aequi/atera, falcatus.
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Scombcr comprefrus latus, linca l. i - terati curva lacvi, prope caudam recla loricata.
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Va tabellis oircis loricata, corpore Jato ct tenui.
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