[ noun ] the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities <noun.body>
Palate \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.
4. (Bot.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.
Palate \Pal"ate\, v. t. To perceive by the taste. [Obs.] --Shak.
But it also tastes defiantly of real grapes rather than the stinks lab. Too many Chardonnays today (to my probably rather precious palate) taste man-made rather than map-made.
Master chef Julia Child thinks she knows how to make broccoli pleasing to the presidential palate.
They know more and more about food, all kinds of food. They're more educated of the palate." Banchet is one of the chefs donating their talents for Children's Hospital, the world's leading pediatric liver transplant center.
Congenital birth defects left Hernandez-Pina with a severely disfigured face and cleft palate.
Textbook barrel fermented Chardonnay with all the delicacy on the palate that entails - but Spanish?
That patient, he said, suffers from melanoma that had formed tumors throughout her body, including the lungs, the skin and the soft palate of the mouth.
"The information from this line of research is being applied to gain access to a closely linked gene which, when mutated, causes cleft palate in mice," Brilliant said.
So far, no U.S. palate has been admitted, although eight Americans took the annual exam in London last month.
Only bourbon barrels are used to make it an uncompromising version of the 'bourbon' style of malt whisky: intensely buttery and with an attractive smokiness - but with all that Balvenie sweetness on the palate.
They have helped educate the American palate.' Taste is just part of the equation, though.
The report, dated Friday and seen in Bangkok today, said the three-year program involved research on and treatment of cleft lip and cleft palate.
In his compositions, as well as his highly acclaimed televised series of young people's concerts, he skimmed the cream from classical music and pasteurized it for the American palate.
McKay slammed his infant son to the delivery room floor moments after the boy was born with a cleft palate, a harelip and webbed fingers.
There was no incentive to improve quality as local drinkers or foreigners on package tours had no palate for fine wines. By the early 1980s, replanting started; a few years later new varieties were introduced, such as Cabernet Franc and Merlot.
Restaurants are opening dedicated to the cuisine of the palace and the pashas rather than the food of the bazaar. Even for the most jaded palate, Ottoman food is an adventure.