palate
Pluralpalates
Verbpalates, palating, palated
Often confused with palette and pallet
Pluralpalates
Formspalates, palating, palated
- 1The top inside part of the mouth. It separates the mouth from the nose in people and other animals with backbones.
Peanut butter stuck to my palate, so I couldn't talk for a moment.
The doctor said the baby had a small gap in her palate that could be fixed.
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- 2How well a person can taste different flavors, tell them apart and enjoy them.
A good cook needs a good palate.
Years of tasting coffee have given him a very sharp palate.
Similartaste
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- 5To enjoy something, or to find it easy enough to accept.
"Honestly, I just can't palate that kind of music," he said.
Lots of fans couldn't palate the new ending, to be honest.
Similarstomach
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- 6A part inside an insect's mouth, also called the hypopharynx.
We looked at the bee's palate under a microscope.
The book has a drawing of a fly's palate.
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- 7In some animals without backbones, a part of the mouth a bit like the roof of our mouth.
- 8In some flowers with two lips, like the snapdragon, a bump that sticks out inside the flower's opening.
- 9The roof of an animal's mouth, cooked and eaten as food.
I remember, when he was in Scotland, his praising ‘Gordon's palates’ (a dish of palates at the Honourable Alexander Gordon's) with a warmth of expression which might have done for honour to more important subjects.
1791, James Boswell, Life of Samuel JohnsonHere, palates means the roofs of animals' mouths, cooked and eaten as food.
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Origin
From the Latin word palātum, meaning "the roof of the mouth".