Circumvallate: Definition and part of speech

Circumvallate

  1. a. Surrounded by a ridge or elevation; as, the circumvallate papillae, near the base of the tongue.
  2. v. t. To surround with a rampart or wall.
  3. a. Surrounded with a wall; inclosed with a rampart.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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