hard palate

1. 1.

   the bony part of the roof of the mouth

   Broadersurface

   Part ofpalateupper jaw

Questions about hard palate

What does hard palate mean?

hard palate means "the bony part of the roof of the mouth".

Is hard palate a common word?

hard palate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.