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Surrounded by a gelatinous or membranous envelope.

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Usage examples (38)
  • The meaning of the song in encapsulated in the following lyric:
  • Puretag's streamline design offers a glue free label encapsulated flush with the external surface of the hose.
  • But people don’t write or speak in encapsulated single thoughts – they communicate in texts, in paragraphs, in extended discourse.
  • The ingredients are spray-dried and encapsulated, which is said to standardize their strength and flavour profile, while protecting them from degradation over time
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