plated

UK/ˈpleɪtɪd/US/ˈpleɪtɪd/

adjectiveB2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,317 of 15,258leans written

Plated means covered with flat hard sections. A plated dinosaur, plated armour, plated scales.

The plates on a stegosaurus were probably not armour at all — they are too thin and too full of blood vessels, and display or temperature control are the likelier purposes. In metalwork, plated means coated with a thin layer of another metal.

Definitions of plated

1adjectiveplatedCovered with flat hard sections.B2
“The armadillo's plated shell protects it from predators.”

plated is a quality of covering.

Practised in Dinosaurs & Prehistory

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plated in the wild

A chrome plated part is called chrome, or is said to have been chromed.
Chrome plating
Nobel Prize medals consist of 18 karat green gold plated with 24 karat gold.
Gold medal
The Sudan plated lizard (Broadleysaurus major), also known as the western plated lizard, great plated lizard, or Broadley's rough-scaled plated lizard, is a medium-sized, diurnal African lizard.
Sudan plated lizard
The tin plated Molex connectors were only rated for a few insertions and were sometimes a problem in hobbyist systems where the boards were being swapped often.
SS-50 bus
Later systems would often come with gold plated Molex connectors.
SS-50 bus

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