Definition that contains alate
- soft (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh')
- cleft a split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin)
- palatine either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits
- palatine relating to or lying near the palate
- pygmalion (Greek mythology) a king who created a statue of a woman and fell in love with it; Aphrodite brought the sculpture to life as Galatea
- trill the articulation of a consonant (especially the consonant `r') with a rapid flutter of the tongue against the palate or uvula
- uvula a small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate
- obturator a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate)
- trigonum cerebrale an arched bundle of white fibers at the base of the brain by which the hippocampus of each hemisphere projects to the contralateral hippocampus and to the thalamus and mamillary bodies
- velar a consonant produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate