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Plural of capsule

regular plural

The plural of capsule is capsules.

Forms of capsule

Singularcapsule /ˈkæps(ə)l/
Pluralcapsules
Countablecountable

Capsules in a sentence

  • Gen Zers are taking to TikTok to film themselves unpeeling conkers from their spiky capsules.2025 October 13, “‘Nature’s Labubu’: why are gen Z ‘unboxing’ conkers?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry conker
  • Her mostly organic diet is supplemented with black-currant oil, acetylcarnitine and silica capsules.2009 March 3, Peter Lueders, “Feed Your Face”, in New York Times. From the entry acetylcarnitine
  • “Instead of the capsules, it’s this microvascular network that circulates and delivers the healing agent,” Dr.2007 June 19, Henry Fountain, “Cockroaches Conditioned to Salivate at a Scent, Not Pavlov’s Dinner Bell”, in New York Times. From the entry microvascular
  • Reliquary phylacteries could serve as suspension capsules or containers for holy relics.2006, Don C. Skemer, “Introduction”, in Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages (Magic in History), University Park, Pa.…. From the entry phylactery
  • Fruits in Paullinia are marginicidal, septifragal capsules, whereas those of Serjania are schizocarps with samaroid mericarps.1998, Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez, “Paullinia Lingulata (Sapindaceae), a New Species from French Guiana.”, in Brittonia, number 50, pages 514–16. From the entry marginicidal

Meaning of capsule

  1. noun A membranous envelope.
  2. noun A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.
  3. noun A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.

Full definition of capsule

Questions about the plural of capsule

What is the plural of capsule?
The plural of capsule is capsules.
Is capsule countable?
Capsule is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: capsule (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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