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palate
1. n. (anatomy) The roof of the mouth; the uraniscus.
2. n. The sense of taste.
3. n. (figuratively) relish; taste; liking (from the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste)
4. n. (figuratively) Mental relish; intellectual taste.
5. n. (botany) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.
6. v. (transitive, nonstandard) To relish; to find palatable.
Synonyms: stomach

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Example Sentences

To the palate, well, if they didn't quite dazzle, they didn't distress, either.  Stale cookies to a fastidious Italian palate.  A curate is taking legal action to force police to investigate a late abortion on a woman who did not want to have a baby with a cleft palate.  However, some of the combinations, as well as the starring roles given to forgotten herbs and lesser spices, indicated an inquiring mind and palate.

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