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Encysted vs Zoocyst - What's the difference?

encysted | zoocyst |

As a verb encysted

is past tense of encyst.

As an adjective encysted

is contained in a cyst.

As a noun zoöcyst is

a cyst formed by certain Protozoa and unicellular plants which the contents divide into a large number of granules, each of which becomes a germ.

encysted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (encyst)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (medicine) Contained in a cyst.
  • (figuratively) Embedded, enclosed.
  • *2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 545:
  • *:This group included many who had been deeply encysted within the corporative fabric of the Bourbon polity – plus many for whom the chips did not fall well.

    • zoocyst

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A variety of encysted rhizopods resembling a sporocyst, except in the thickness and number of the protective layer.