circumvallate
Americanadjective
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surrounded by or as if by a rampart.
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Anatomy. surrounded by a depression or wall-like ridge.
verb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of circumvallate
1655–65; < Latin circumvallātus (past participle of circumvallāre to surround with a wall), equivalent to circum- circum- + vall ( um ) rampart, wall + -ātus -ate 1
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Finally, there are circumvallate papillae, which are wall-like papillae in the shape of an inverted “V” at the back of the tongue.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The large circumvallate papillae contain up to 100 taste buds and form a V near the posterior margin of the tongue.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The scenery was a magnificence of circumvallate mountains.
From Time Magazine Archive
In many of the fungiform and most of the circumvallate papillæ are peculiar structures called taste buds or taste goblets.
From A Practical Physiology by Albert F. Blaisdell
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.
From Authors of Greece by T. W. Lumb
Theme of "The Cat, a Goldfinch and the Stars" is that every individualized consciousness is circumvallated by whatever body it may inhabit.
From Time Magazine Archive
And floating away, these vapors blended with the faint mist, as of a cataract, hovering over the circumvallating reef.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
But through the gloom, and on the circumvallating reef, the breakers dashed ghost-white.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
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