About The Word Palate
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Palate
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What's The Definition Of Palate?
[n] the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities
Synonyms | Synonyms for Palate: roof of the mouth Related Terms | Find terms related to Palate: aftertaste | alveolar ridge | alveolus | apex | appreciation | appreciation of differences | appreciativeness | artistic judgment | arytenoid cartilages | back | bitter | blade | connoisseurship | critical niceness | criticalness | delicacy | discriminating taste | discriminatingness | discrimination | discriminativeness | dorsum | fastidiousness | feel | feeling | fine palate | finesse | flavor | gust | gusto | hard palate | heart | judiciousness | larynx | lingua | lips | making distinctions | nasal cavity | niceness of distinction | nicety | oral cavity | pharyngeal cavity | pharynx | refined discrimination | refined palate | refinement | relish | salt | sapidity | sapor | savor | savoriness | selectiveness | sense | sensibility | sensitivity | smack | soft palate | sour | speech organ | stomach | subtlety | sweet | syrinx | tact | tactfulness | tang | taste | taste bud | teeth | teeth ridge | tip | tongue | tooth | velum | vocal chink | vocal cords | vocal folds | vocal processes | voice box | zest See Also | gustatory organ | hard palate | mouth | oral cavity | oral fissure | rima oris | soft palate | surface | taste bud | tastebud | velum Palate In Webster's Dictionary \Pal"ate\, n. [L. palatum: cf. F. palais, Of. also
palat.]
1. (Anat.) The roof of the mouth.
Note: The fixed portion, or palate proper, supported by the
maxillary and palatine bones, is called the hard palate
to distinguish it from the membranous and muscular
curtain which separates the cavity of the mouth from
the pharynx and is called the soft palate, or velum.
2. Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the
mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.
Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests. --Pope.
3. Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste. --T. Baker.
4. (Bot.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the
snapdragon.
\Pal"ate\, v. t. To perceive by the taste. [Obs.] --Shak. |
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