LORICA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: loricae   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hard protective sheath (as secreted by certain protoctists, for example)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("lorica" is a kind of...):

case; sheath (an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part)

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