Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Palatal   Listen
Palatal

noun
1.
A semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like the initial sound in the English word 'yeast').
adjective
1.
Relating to or lying near the palate.  Synonym: palatine.  "The palatine tonsils"
2.
Produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as 'y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as 'ch' in 'chin' or 'j' in 'gin').  Synonyms: palatalised, palatalized.





WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Palatal" Quotes from Famous Books



... in this formation are less numerous. There are many fishes, some of which (acrodus, psammodus, &c.,) are presumed from remains of their palatal bones, to have been of the gigantic cartilaginous class, now represented by such as the cestraceon. It has been considered by Professor Owen as worthy of notice, that, the cestraceon being an inhabitant of the Australian seas, we have, in both the ...
— Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation • Robert Chambers


Copyright © 2025 Free Translator.org