adjective.
Covered with or made of plates of mail.
adjective.
Having a hard covering of scales, spines, or horny plate, as an armadillo or a lobster.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Spotted; speckled.
In zoology, loricate; lepidote; cataphracted; provided with scales, plates, shields, bucklers, or the like, which serve for defensive armor like a coat of mail. See lorica, loricate, Loricata.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adjective.
Protected by an external coat, or covering, of scales or plates.