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Dainty :: Dainty (superl.) Delicious to the palate; toothsome.

Saurognathous :: Saurognathous (a.) Having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers (Pici)..

Grateful :: Grateful (a.) Affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying; delicious; as, a grateful present; food grateful to the palate; grateful sleep..

Palato- :: Palato- () A combining form used in anatomy to indicate relation to, or connection with, the palate; as in palatolingual..

Uraniscoplasty :: Uraniscoplasty (n.) The process of forming an artificial palate.

Palatine :: Palatine (a.) Of or pertaining to the palate.

Velar :: Velar (a.) Having the place of articulation on the soft palate; guttural; as, the velar consonants, such as k and hard q..

Uraniscorrhaphy :: Uraniscorrhaphy (n.) Suture of the palate. See Staphyloraphy.

Velar :: Velar (a.) Of or pertaining to a velum; esp. (Anat.) of or pertaining to the soft palate.

Velum :: Velum (n.) Curtain or covering; -- applied to various membranous partitions, especially to the soft palate. See under Palate..

Lamprey :: Lamprey (n.) An eel-like marsipobranch of the genus Petromyzon, and allied genera. The lampreys have a round, sucking mouth, without jaws, but set with numerous minute teeth, and one to three larger teeth on the palate (see Illust. of Cyclostomi). There are seven small branchial openings on each side..

Palatal :: Palatal (n.) A sound uttered, or a letter pronounced, by the aid of the palate, as the letters k and y..

Guttural :: Guttural (n.) A sound formed in the throat; esp., a sound formed by the aid of the back of the tongue, much retracted, and the soft palate; also, a letter representing such a sound..

Schizognathism :: Schizognathism (n.) The condition of having a schizognathous palate.

Schizognath :: Schizognath (n.) Any bird with a schizognathous palate.

Palate :: Palate (n.) Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste.

Disrelish :: Disrelish (n.) Want of relish; dislike (of the palate or of the mind); distaste; a slight degree of disgust; as, a disrelish for some kinds of food..

Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; -- distinguished from wide; as e (eve) and / (f/d), etc., from i (ill) and / (f/t), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13..

Uvula :: Uvula (n.) The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate.

Stopcock :: Stop (n.) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed..

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