Palate \Pal"ate\, n. [L. palatum: cf. F. palais, Of. also
palat.]
1. (Anat.) The roof of the mouth.
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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.
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2. Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the
mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.
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Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests. --Pope.
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3. Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste. --T. Baker.
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4. (Bot.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the
snapdragon.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Palate \Pal"ate\, v. t.
To perceive by the taste. [Obs.] --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
palate
n : the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and
nasal cavities [syn: roof of the mouth]
WordNet (r) 2.0
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
roof of the mouth
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