CAPSULATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capsulate mean? 

• CAPSULATE (adjective)
  The adjective CAPSULATE has 1 sense:

1. used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule

  Familiarity information: CAPSULATE used as an adjective is very rare.

• CAPSULATE (verb)
  The verb CAPSULATE has 1 sense:

1. enclose in a capsule

  Familiarity information: CAPSULATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPSULATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule

Synonyms:

capsulate; capsulated

Similar:

enclosed (closed in or surrounded or included within)

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)

• CAPSULATE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enclose in a capsule

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

capsulate; capsule; capsulise; capsulize

Hypernyms (to "capsulate" is one way to...):

enclose; enfold; envelop; enwrap; wrap (enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

capsule (a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside)