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Webster 1913 Edition


Cataphracted

Cat′a-phractˊed

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Adj.
(Zool.)
Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, callous skin, etc.

Definition 2024


cataphracted

cataphracted

English

Adjective

cataphracted (not comparable)

  1. Covered with a cataphract.
    • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.121:
      The path climbed along a wall of purple sandstone above an embayment and in the sunlit shadows below him he could see the long cataphracted forms of gars lying in a kind of electric repose among the reeds.