Palate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The roof of the mouth in vertebrates having a complete or partial separation of the oral and nasal cavities and consisting of the hard palate and the soft palate.
  • n. Botany The projecting part on the lower lip of a bilabiate corolla that closes the throat, as in a snapdragon.
  • n. The sense of taste: delicacies pleasing to the most refined palate.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The roof of the mouth; the uraniscus.
  • n. The sense of taste.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The roof of the mouth.
  • n. Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.
  • n. Mental relish; intellectual taste.
  • n. A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.
  • v. To perceive by the taste.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The roof of the mouth and floor of the nose; the parts, collectively considered, which separate the oral from the nasal cavity.
  • n. Taste; relish: from the idea that the palate is the organ of taste.
  • n. The power of relishing mentally; intellectual taste.
  • n. In botany, the projection of the lower lip of a personate corolla, more or less completely closing the throat, as in Linaria and Antirrhinum.
  • n. In entomology, the epipharynx, a fleshy lobe beneath the labrum.
  • To perceive by the taste; taste.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    surface   
    Cross Reference
    cleft palate   
    Form
    palatal    palatable    soft palate    palatally    hard palate   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    relish    taste    liking    roof    taster   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Mallet    ballot    gallet    mallet    palette    pallet   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    nostril    pharynx    tonsil    appetite    esophagus    stomach    fingertip   
     
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