noun
former name for the order Crocodylia
• Syn: ↑order Loricata
• Hypernyms: ↑animal order
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I. \\ˌlȯrəˈkäd.ə, -ād.ə\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
: any of several groups of animals with a lorica (as the armadillos or the loricate rotifers)
II. noun plural
Usage: capitalized
: 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.
synonym of amphineura
IV.
synonym of palinura
Useful english dictionary. 2012.