Palate

Noun

 * 1) (Anatomy) The roof of the mouth; the uraniscus.
 * 2) The sense of taste.

Adjectives for Palate
effeminate; unperverted; vitiated; crude; gratified; spoiled; censorious.

Verbs for Palate
cleave to—; harden-; jade—; malform—; reeducate—; refine—; soften—; tempt—; tickle—; —acclaims; —revolts; —savors; —tempts.

Thesaurus
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, 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,

Etymology
From <  palat: <  palatum:, perhaps of Etruscan origin.

Pronunciation

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Derived terms

 * palatable
 * palatal
 * palatally
 * hard palate
 * soft palate

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: حنك
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 上顎, 上颚, ,  口盖,  ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: gehemelte, verhemelte
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew: חך (khaykh)
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 上顎
 * Korean: 입천장 (ib-cheongjang, ip-), 구개 (gugae)
 * Latin:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: gom
 * Ukrainian: піднебіння
 * Volapük: palat

Anagrams

 * paleta

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Verb
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Anagrams

 * pelata
 * platea

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