Usually means: Sense of taste; roof mouth.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. palate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. palate: Merriam-Webster
  3. palate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. palate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. palate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. palate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Palate, palate: Wordnik
  8. palate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. palate: Wiktionary
  10. palate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. palate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. palate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. palate: Dictionary.com
  14. palate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. palate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Palate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Palate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. palate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. palate: Rhymezone
  20. palate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. palate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. palate: FreeDictionary.org
  23. palate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. palate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. palate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Beer Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Palate: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Palate: Glossary of Health Care Terms

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. palate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. palate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Palate: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Palate: Merck Manuals
  6. palate: Sound Alike Words
  7. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Palate: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  10. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  11. palate: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  12. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  13. palate: Medical dictionary
  14. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  15. Palate: Drug Medical Dictionary
  16. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy) The roof of the mouth, separating the cavities of the mouth and nose in vertebrates.
noun:  (zoology) A part associated with the mouth of certain invertebrates, somewhat analogous to the palate of vertebrates.
noun:  (entomology, rare) The hypopharynx of an insect.
noun:  (botany) A projection in the throat of certain bilabiate flowers as the snapdragon.
noun:  (cooking, historical) The palate of an animal, as an item of food.
noun:  (figuratively) A person's ability to distinguish between and appreciate different flavors.
noun:  (figuratively) Mental relish; a liking or affinity for something.
noun:  Taste or flavour, especially with reference to wine or other alcoholic drinks.
noun:  (obsolete) A dainty article of food.
verb:  (transitive, nonstandard) To relish; to find palatable.

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