armoured
/ˈɑːməd
/(US armored)
adjective
1Covered with or protected by armour: armoured vehicles...
- The armoured vehicle is protected against 14.5 mm heavy machine gun rounds and artillery splinters.
- Witnesses said US troops riding in jeeps and armoured vehicles opened fire after children in the crowd started pelting them with shoes and stones.
- The division's long columns of trucks and Humvee armoured vehicles avoided Iraqi army and paramilitary units as they pushed north on Thursday and Friday.
Synonyms
armour-plated, steel-plated, ironclad, mailed;
bulletproof, bombproof, mineproof, reinforced, protected, toughened
2(Of some animals and plants) having a protective layer or shell: armoured fish...
- Most mollusks have such tissue, but in this armored species, the gland is about 100 times the size of that found in related species.
- Halkieriids were sluglike metazoans armored with a coat of mineralized sclerites and two prominent shells at either end.
- For as long as they were there, no crocodile or armored herbivorous or general carnivorous dinosaur could grow very big.