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palates

noun

Meaning

  1. The roof of the mouth; the uraniscus.
  2. The sense of taste.
  3. Relish; taste; liking (from the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste)
  4. Mental relish; intellectual taste.
  5. A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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