Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To surround with or as if with a rampart.
- adjective Surrounded with or as if with a rampart.
- adjective Anatomy Surrounded by a ridge or raised, wall-like structure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Walled in; surrounded by or as by a parapet.
- Also called
calyciform papillæ . - To surround with or as with a rampart or fortified lines.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To surround with a rampart or wall.
- adjective Surrounded with a wall; inclosed with a rampart.
- adjective (Anat.) Surrounded by a ridge or elevation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to surround with a
rampart - adjective Surrounded with a
wall ; enclosed with arampart . - adjective anatomy Surrounded by a
ridge orelevation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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First he made it impossible for the Athenians to circumvallate the city; then he captured the naval stores of the enemy, forcing them to encamp in unhealthy ground.
Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb
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And in the rest of the wall circumvallate of these bearing out rownde
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Taste is most acute in or near the circumvallate papillæ.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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In many of the fungiform and most of the circumvallate papillæ are peculiar structures called taste buds or taste goblets.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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Towards the root of the tongue is another kind of papillæ, the circumvallate, eight to fifteen in number, arranged in the form of the letter V, with the apex directed backwards.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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The papillæ vallatæ (circumvallate papillæ) (Fig. 1015) are of large size, and vary from eight to twelve in number.
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The muscular system is untouched; the structure and nature of the terminal circumvallate papilla have to be made out; the lingual teeth must be re-examined; and the characters of the male determined.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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The muscular system is untouched; the structure and nature of the terminal circumvallate papilla have to be made out; the lingual teeth must be re-examined; and the characters of the male determined.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896
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A slight median depression is recognisable on the dorsum as far back as the vallate (circumvallate) papillæ, which mark the boundary between the oral and pharyngeal parts.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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It is now pretty satisfactorily established that the circumvallate, or fungiform papillae are the only ones concerned in the special sense of taste.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
shanvrolijk commented on the word circumvallate
The settlement is circumvallated by a stake-fence, so decayed that one may gain ingress at a dozen places.
CLOUD ATLAS, by David Mitchell
An excerpt from the Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing
https://www.hodder.co.uk/Articles/First+Chapter+Cloud+Atlas+by+David+Mitchell.page
January 28, 2018