lorica

1. 1.

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

   Broadersheath

Other forms of lorica

plural

loricae

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lorica

What does lorica mean?

lorica means "a hard protective sheath (as secreted by certain protoctists, for example)".

How many syllables are in lorica?

lorica has 3 syllables: lo-ri-ca. The stress falls on "lo".

Is lorica a common word?

lorica is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.