Palate vs Olfactory - What's the difference?
palate | olfactory |
(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
(figuratively) Mental relish; intellectual taste.
(botany) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.
(nonstandard) To relish; to find palatable.
* Wired [http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/film-culturomics/]
Concerning the sense of smell.
An olfactory organ.
(chiefly, in the plural) The sense of smell.
As nouns the difference between palate and olfactory
is that palate is the roof of the mouth; the uraniscus while olfactory is an olfactory organ.As a verb palate
is to relish; to find palatable.As an adjective olfactory is
concerning the sense of smell.palate
English
Noun
(en noun)- Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests.
Derived terms
* palatable * palatal * palatally * hard palate * soft palateVerb
(palat)- "If it’s way out there, it’s hard to palate ," said Sreenivasan.
