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hard palate

noun

  1. the anterior bony portion of the roof of the mouth, extending backwards to the soft palate
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


hard palate

  1. See under palate
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For example, the consonant "da," which is produced by touching the tongue to the hard palate behind the teeth, is needed to produce the word dog.

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Camels have a hard palate at the tops of their mouths, says Alex Warnock, the Arizonian who owns the camels in the video.

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Most likely it was cancer that had migrated from some original tumor elsewhere in the head, possibly in my tonsils or hard palate.

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They can be found within the “mucosa†of your cheeks, lips, soft palate, hard palate, the floor of your mouth and even your throat.

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He used to confine his eating to soups that would be less likely than other foods to get clogged in the hole in his hard palate.

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