Usually means: Roof of mouth, bony structure.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word hard palate:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. hard palate: Merriam-Webster
  2. hard palate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hard palate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hard palate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hard palate: Vocabulary.com
  6. hard palate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Hard palate, Hard palate: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. hard palate: Wiktionary
  9. hard palate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hard palate: Dictionary.com
  11. Hard palate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. hard palate: Rhymezone
  13. hard palate: FreeDictionary.org
  14. hard palate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. hard palate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Palate, hard, hard palate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. hard palate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Hard palate, Palate, hard: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Dental and Oral Health Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Hard palate: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  8. hard palate: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. Palate, hard, hard palate: Medical dictionary
  10. Hard palate, Palate, hard: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hard palate)

noun:  A thin horizontal bony plate of the skull, located in the roof of the mouth.

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