Usually means: Form into a protective capsule.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. encyst: Merriam-Webster
  2. encyst: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. encyst: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. encyst: Collins English Dictionary
  5. encyst: Wordnik
  6. encyst: Wiktionary
  7. encyst: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. encyst: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. encyst: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. encyst: Dictionary.com
  11. Encyst: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Encyst: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. encyst: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Encyst: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. encyst: FreeDictionary.org
  16. encyst: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. encyst: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. encyst: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. encyst: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (encyst)

verb:  (transitive) To enclose within a cyst.
verb:  (intransitive) To be enclosed within a cyst.

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