Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Covered; protected; especially, in zoology, covered with a hard shelly case.
  • In entomology, concealed under a neighboring part: specifically said of the hemielytra of a hemipterous insect when they are covered by the greatly enlarged and shield-like scutellum, as in the family Scutelleridæ: opposed to detected.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Covered; protected.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) Covered with a hard chitinous case, as the pupa of certain flies; also called obtect.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete covered; protected
  • adjective zoology Covered with a hard chitinous case, like the pupa of certain files.

Etymologies

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Latin obtectus, past participle of obtegere to cover over.

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