Circumvallate(a.) Surrounded with a wall; inclosed with a rampart.
Circumvallate(a.) Surrounded by a ridge or elevation; as, the circumvallate papillae, near the base of the tongue.
Circumvallate(v. t.) To surround with a rampart or wall.
Circumvallation(n.) The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.
Circumvallation(n.) A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without.
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