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palatine

 
Adjective palatine has 3 senses
  1. palatal, palatine - relating to or lying near the palate; "palatal index"; "the palatine tonsils"
  2. palatine - of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives
  3. palatine - of or relating to a palace
Noun palatine has 4 senses
  1. palatine - any of various important officials in ancient Rome
    --1 is a kind of
    Roman
  2. palatine, palsgrave - (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands
    --2 is a kind of Lord, noble, nobleman
  3. Palatine - the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome; supposedly the location of the first settlement and the site of many imperial palaces
    --3 is a kind of
    hill
    --3 is a part of Seven Hills of Rome
  4. palatine, palatine bone, os palatinum - 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
    --4 is a kind of bone, os
palatalised palatalize palatalized palate palates palatial palatible palatinate palatine palatine artery palatine bone palatine raphe palatine tonsil palatine vein palatka palato-alveolar palato

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