Usually means: Cellular organelle, digests waste materials.
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  1. lysosome: Merriam-Webster
  2. lysosome: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lysosome: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lysosome: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lysosome: Vocabulary.com
  6. lysosome: Wordnik
  7. Lysosome: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. lysosome: Wiktionary
  9. lysosome: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lysosome: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. lysosome: Dictionary.com
  12. Lysosome: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. lysosome: Rhymezone
  14. lysosome: FreeDictionary.org
  15. lysosome: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. lysosome: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lysosome: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. lysosome: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Lysosome: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. lysosome: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  7. lysosome: Medical dictionary
  8. Lysosome: Drug Medical Dictionary
  9. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. lysosome: Natural History Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lysosome)

noun:  (cytology) An organelle found in all types of animal cells which contains a large range of digestive enzymes capable of splitting most biological macromolecules.

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