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Webster 1913 Edition

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Adj.

Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box;

esp.

(Botany)

enclosed in a seed capsule; – of seeds or spores.

Syn. – encapsulated.

capsulated ‎(not comparable)

Enclosed in a capsule
- 2001 May 11, Bruce R. Levin & Rustom Antia, “Why We Don't Get Sick: The Within-Host Population Dynamics of Bacterial Infections”, in Science, volume 292, number 5519, DOI:10.1126/science.1058879, pages 1112-1115:
  If the colonizing population of the ancestral capsulated strains is too small, a sufficient number of unencapsulated variants (mutants) may not be generated and invasion will not take place.
- 1913, John William Henry Eyre, The Elements of Bacteriological Technique:
  Cultivations from the heart blood gave a pure growth of a typical (capsulated) pneumococcus.