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adj. Of or relating to the palate.

adj. Linguistics Produced with the front of the tongue near or against the hard palate, as the (y) in English young.

adj. Linguistics Produced with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate, as the (ch) in English chin.

adj. Linguistics Produced with the front of the tongue in a forward position. Used of a vowel.

n. Linguistics A palatal sound.

adj. Pertaining to the palate.

adj. Of an upper tooth, on the side facing the palate.

adj. Articulated at the hard palate.

n. A palatal consonant.

adj. Of or pertaining to the palate; palatine.

adj. Uttered by the aid of the palate; -- said of certain sounds, as the sound of k in kirk.

n. A sound uttered, or a letter pronounced, by the aid of the palate, as the letters k and y.

In anatomy, of or pertaining to the palate; palatine: as, palatal arteries, nerves, muscles; the palatal plate of the maxillary bone. Also palatial.

Uttered by the aid of the palate, as certain sounds. See II., 2.

n. A palatine bone or palate-bone proper, one of a pair, right and left, of facial bones entering into the formation of the hard palate.

n. A sound usually produced by the upper surface of the tongue against a part of the palate further forward than that at which our kand g are made; but sometimes used of any sound made between the tongue and any part of the hard or soft palate.

Situated on the outer lip, as the teeth at the aperture of a shell.

adj. relating to or lying near the palate

adj. produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin')

n. a semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like the initial sound in the English word `yeast')

"In a normal mouse embryo, groups of cells called the palatal shelf on either side of the mouth grow outward, elevate to meet in the middle and fuse to form the palate."

soft   

semivowel    glide   

palatal length    palatal glands   

palatine   

purse-string    sloshy    toeless    absorbable    unaccented    basilic    nowait    Fla.    orotund    phalange