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1: someone who fights for a cause [syn: {champion}, {fighter}, {hero}]

1: the more primitive parts of the brain phylogenetically; most structures other than the cerebral cortex [syn: {paleencephalon}, {paleoencephalon}]

1: type genus of the family Palaemonidae; widely distributed genus [syn: {genus Palaemon}]

1: large (a foot or more) edible freshwater prawn common in Australian rivers [syn: {long-clawed prawn}, {river prawn}]

1: prawns [syn: {family Palaemonidae}]

1: the scientific study of human fossils [syn: {paleoanthropology}, {human paleontology}, {human palaeontology}]

1: a branch of paleontology that deals with the origin and growth and structure of fossil animals and plants as living organisms [syn: {paleobiology}]

1: the study of fossil plants [syn: {paleobotany}]

1: the study of the climate of past ages [syn: {paleoclimatology}]

1: the branch of paleobotany that studies fossil trees [syn: {paleodendrology}]

1: the branch of ecology that studies ancient ecology [syn: {paleoecology}]

1: the ethnography of paleolithic humans [syn: {paleoethnography}]

1: the study of the geography of ancient times or ancient epochs [syn: {paleogeography}]

1: the study of geologic features once at the surface of the earth but now buried beneath rocks [syn: {paleogeology}]

1: of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic); "paleolithic artifacts" [syn: {paleolithic}] n : second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years ...

1: the study of (especially prehistoric) antiquities [syn: {paleology}]

1: of or relating to paleontology [syn: {paleontological}]

1: a specialist in paleontology [syn: {paleontologist}, {fossilist}]

1: the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains [syn: {paleontology}, {fossilology}]

1: the study of disease of former times (as inferred from fossil evidence) [syn: {paleopathology}]

1: the paleobiology of birds [syn: {paleornithology}]

1: the study of fossil animals [syn: {paleozoology}]

1: a public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes [syn: {palestra}]

1: the explanation of past events in terms of scientific causes (as geological causes) [syn: {paletiology}]

1: an Anatolian language

1: a closed litter carried on the shoulders of four bearers [syn: {palanquin}]

1: a closed litter carried on the shoulders of four bearers [syn: {palankeen}]

1: large genus of Malaysian trees with milky juice and leathery leaves [syn: {genus Palaquium}]

1: East Indian tree yielding gutta-percha [syn: {gutta-percha tree}]

1: East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye [syn: {dhak}, {dak}, {Butea frondosa}, {Butea monosperma}]

1: the property of being acceptable to the mouth [syn: {palatableness}] [ant: {unpalatability}]

1: acceptable to the taste or mind; "palatable food"; "a palatable solution to the problem" [ant: {unpalatable}]

1: the property of being acceptable to the mouth [syn: {palatability}] [ant: {unpalatability}]

1: in a palatable way [ant: {unpalatably}]

1: relating to or lying near the palate; "palatal index"; "the palatine tonsils" [syn: {palatine}] 2: produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade ...

1: pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate [syn: {palatalize}]

1: produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin') [syn: {palatal}, {palatalize...

1: pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate [syn: {palatalise}]

1: produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin') [syn: {palatal}, {palatalise...

1: the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities [syn: {roof of the mouth}]

1: relating to or being a palace; "the palatial residence" 2: suitable for or like a palace; "palatial furnishings"; "a palatial yacht"

1: a territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine [syn: {Pfalz}]

1: relating to or lying near the palate; "palatal index"; "the palatine tonsils" [syn: {palatal}] 2: of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives 3: of or relating to a palace n 1: an...

1: one of several arteries supplying the face [syn: {arteria palatina}]

1: 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 [syn: {palatine}, {os palatinum}]

1: the seam at the middle of the hard palate

1: either of two masses of lymphatic tissue one on each side of the oral pharynx [syn: {tonsil}, {faucial tonsil}, {tonsilla}]

1: a vein that drains the region of the palate and empties into the facial vein [syn: {vena palatina}]

1: relating to the palate and tongue

1: surgical resection of unnecessary palatal and oropharyngeal tissue to open the airway; intended to cure extreme cases of snoring (with or without sleep apnea) [syn: {PPP}, {uvulopalatopharyngoplast...

1: a republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States [syn: {Republic of Palau}, {TT}] 2: a chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western centra...

1: a chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean [syn: {Palau}, {Belau}, {Pelew}]

1: flattery intended to persuade [syn: {blandishment}, {cajolery}] 2: loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric" [syn: {hot air}, {empty words}, {empty talk}, {rhetoric}] v 1: speak (about unim...

1: very light colored; highly diluted with white; "pale seagreen"; "pale blue eyes" 2: (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the...

1: an amber colored ale brewed with pale malts; similar to bitter but drier and lighter

1: important pest of chrysanthemums

1: plant having clumps of nearly leafless pale yellowish to greenish stems bearing similarly colored flowers with white lower lips; northern New Mexico north through South Dakota and Washington to Ala...

1: leafy-stemmed violet of eastern North America having large white or creamy flowers faintly marked with purple [syn: {striped violet}, {cream violet}, {Viola striata}]

1: a yellow tint; yellow diluted with white [syn: {straw}]

1: geometrid moths [syn: {genus Paleacrita}]