capsulated

Enclosed in a capsule

Adjective

  1. Enclosed in a capsule
    • 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. - 2001 May 11, Bruce R....
    • Cultivations from the heart blood gave a pure growth of a typical (capsulated) pneumococcus. - 1913, John William Henry Eyre, The Elements of Bacteriological Technique:

Derived

microcapsulated nanocapsulated noncapsulated uncapsulated