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Hard palate   /hɑrd pˈælət/   Listen
Hard palate

noun
1.
The bony part of the roof of the mouth.






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... of Roth just cited.] I am convinced that forests would soon cover many parts of the Arabian and African deserts, if man and domestic animals, especially the goat and the camel, were banished from them. The hard palate and tongue and strong teeth and jaws of this latter quadruped enable him to break off and masticate tough and thorny branches as large as the finger. He is particularly fond of the smaller twigs, leaves, and seed-pods of the ...
— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh



Words linked to "Hard palate" :   palate, upper jaw, maxillary, upper jawbone, roof of the mouth, surface, maxilla



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