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Palate

Palate Meaning & Definition
Palate Definition And Meaning

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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