lorica
Americannoun
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loricae
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Zoology. a hard protective case or sheath, as the protective coverings secreted by certain protists.
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a cuirass or corselet, originally of leather.
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the hard outer covering of rotifers, ciliate protozoans, and similar organisms
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an ancient Roman cuirass of leather or metal
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Origin of lorica
1700–10; lorica ( def. 1 ) < New Latin, special use of Latin lōrīca corselet (originally of leather), akin to lōrum thong; lorica ( def. 2 ) < Latin
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He wore the armour of a Roman centurion—a lorica or cuirass, made of plates of bronze, fastened to a flexible body of leather; and cothurni, or a sort of laced boots, leaching to mid-leg.
From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by William Henry Withrow
Medium-sized ciliates, inclosed in a chitinous lorica with embedded sand crystals.
From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Gary N. (Gary Nathan) Calkins
The tube of the Œcistes is called a "lorica," or carapace; but it has in truth no right whatever to the appellation.
From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Henry J. Slack
Whether or not this species is to be regarded as having a lorica or not, must depend upon the precise meaning attached to that word.
From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Henry J. Slack
An old dictionary which Byron might have consulted, Vocabolario Italiano-Latino, Venice, 1794, gives thorax, lorica, as the Latin equivalent of "Usbergo = armadura del busto, corazza."
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
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