1. Verb
To cover with some protecting substance, as with lute, a crust, coating, or plates.
2. Verb
Covered with a shell or exterior made of plates somewhat like a coat of mail, as in the armadillo.
3. Noun
An animal covered with bony scales, as crocodiles among reptiles, and the pangolins among mammals.
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