- the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate ) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate, orvelum ) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
- the sense of taste: It was a dinner to delight the palate.
- intellectual or aesthetic taste; mental appreciation: She is said to have a discriminating palate for the arts.
- to find pleasing to the taste: My friend was very ill and could not palate much of anything.
- to find acceptable or agreeable to the mind or feelings: Your position is hard to palate, because I believe there is such a thing as objective morality.
- the roof of the mouth, separating the oral and nasal cavities
- the sense of taste
- relish or enjoyment
- (in some two-lipped corollas) the projecting part of the lower lip that closes the opening of the corolla
