Meaning of PALATE
| Pronunciation: | | 'palit
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| | Definition: | | [n] the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities |
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| | Synonyms: | | roof of the mouth |
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| | See Also: | | gustatory organ, hard palate, mouth, oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris, soft palate, surface, taste bud, tastebud, velum | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Definition: | | The roof of the mouth. The front portion is bony (hard palate), and the back portion is muscular (soft palate). |
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| | Definition: | | The palate is the tissue that separates the nasal cavities and the oral cavity; it forms the floor of the nasal cavity and the roof of the oral cavity. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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