Usually means: Relating to the mouth's roof.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word palatal:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. palatal: Merriam-Webster
  2. palatal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. palatal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. palatal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. palatal: Vocabulary.com
  6. palatal: Wordnik
  7. palatal: Wiktionary
  8. palatal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. palatal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. palatal: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. palatal: Dictionary.com
  12. Palatal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Palatal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. palatal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. palatal: Rhymezone
  16. Palatal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. palatal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. palatal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. palatal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. palatal: FreeDictionary.org

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Palatal: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. palatal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. palatal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. palatal: Medical dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See palatally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (anatomy) Pertaining to the palate.
adjective:  (dentistry, not comparable) Of an upper tooth, on the side facing the palate.
adjective:  (phonetics) Articulated at the hard palate.
adjective:  (phonetics, uncommon) Articulated at the palate: dorsal.
noun:  (phonetics) A palatal consonant.

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