Loricata

noun

former name for the order Crocodylia

• Syn: ↑order Loricata

• Hypernyms: ↑animal order

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I. \\ˌlȯrəˈkäd.ə, -ād.ə\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, neuter plural of loricatus

: any of several groups of animals with a lorica (as the armadillos or the loricate rotifers)

II. noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, neuter plural of loricatus

: an order of large long-tailed reptiles (as alligators, crocodiles, gavials) having four limbs adapted to swimming or walking, a tough skin stiffened with bony plates and horny epidermal scales, teeth implanted in sockets and confined to the margins of the jaws, the quadrate bone immovably fixed to the skull, and the heart completely four-chambered

III.

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, neuter plural of loricatus

synonym of amphineura

IV.

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, neuter plural of loricatus

synonym of palinura