Definition of "armata" [armata]

• Obsolete form of armada. (noun)
• A group of gephyreans having setæ and a double blood-vascular system: synonymous with Chœtifera. It consists of the families Echiuridœ and Sternaspidœ.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• ""armata" of the Tuscan city brought home not only marble and ivory, for treasure; but earth, -- a fleet's burden, -- from the place where there was healing of soul's leprosy: and their field became a place of holy tombs, prepared for its office with earth from the land made holy by one tomb; which all the knighthood of Christendom had been pouring out its life to win."
• "Noteworthy species include lesser rhea Pterocnemia pennata, Andean condor Vultur gryphus, which form nesting and roosting colonies called condoreras, torrent duck Merganetta armata, black-throated finch Melanodera melanodera, and others."
• "The largest trees are Ceiba pentandra, Poulsenia armata, Calycophyllum spruceanum, Swietenia macrophylla, and Dipteryx odorata."