circumvallate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification

WordNet

Cir`cum*val"late transitive verb
Etymology
L. circumvallatus, p. p. of circumvallare to surround with a wall; circum + vallare to wall, fr. vallum rampart.
Definitions
  1. To surround with a rampart or wall. Johnson.
Cir`cum*val"late adjective
Definitions
  1. Surrounded with a wall; inclosed with a rampart.
  2. (Anat.) Surrounded by a ridle or elevation; as, the circumvallate papillæ, near the base of the tongue.

Webster 1913