See palate in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
the roof of the mouth, consisting of a hard, bony forward part (the hard palate) and a soft, fleshy back part (the soft palate, or velum)
sense of taste: the palate was incorrectly thought to be the organ of taste
intellectual taste; liking
See palate in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(pălˈĭt)
noun
The roof of the mouth in vertebrates having a complete or partial separation of the oral and nasal cavities and consisting of the hard palate and the soft palate.
Botany The projecting part on the lower lip of a bilabiate corolla that closes the throat, as in a snapdragon.
The sense of taste: delicacies pleasing to the most refined palate.