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Palate vs Lampas - What's the difference?

palate | lampas |

As verbs the difference between palate and lampas

is that palate is (nonstandard) to relish; to find palatable while lampas is .

As a noun palate

is (anatomy) the roof of the mouth; the uraniscus.

palate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (anatomy) The roof of the mouth; the uraniscus.
  • The sense of taste.
  • (figuratively) relish; taste; liking (from the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste)
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests.
  • (figuratively) Mental relish; intellectual taste.
  • (botany) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.

    • Derived terms

    * palatable * palatal * palatally * hard palate * soft palate

    Verb

    (palat)
  • (nonstandard) To relish; to find palatable.
  • * Wired [http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/film-culturomics/]
    • "If it’s way out there, it’s hard to palate ," said Sreenivasan.

    Anagrams

    * English terms derived from Etruscan ----

    lampas

    English

    (wikipedia lampas)

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (-)
  • A type of luxury fabric with a background weft.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) lampas.

    Alternative forms

    * lampers

    Noun

    (-)
  • An inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the palate immediately behind the foreteeth in a horse.

    • Anagrams

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