palate

The roof of the mouth in vertebrates having a complete or partial separation of the oral and nasal cavities and consisting of the hard palate and the soft palate.

The projecting part on the lower lip of a bilabiate corolla that closes the throat, as in a snapdragon.

The sense of taste.

To perceive by the taste; taste.

The roof of the mouth and floor of the nose; the parts, collectively considered, which separate the oral from the nasal cavity.

Taste; relish: from the idea that the palate is the organ of taste.

The power of relishing mentally; intellectual taste.

In botany, the projection of the lower lip of a personate corolla, more or less completely closing the throat, as in Linaria and Antirrhinum.

In entomology, the epipharynx, a fleshy lobe beneath the labrum.

To perceive by the taste.