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Meaning of palatine

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  palatine
      adj 1: relating to or lying near the palate; "palatal index";
             "the palatine tonsils" [syn: {palatal}, {palatine}]
      2: of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives
      3: of or relating to a palace
      n 1: any of various important officials in ancient Rome
      2: (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised
         sovereign powers over his lands [syn: {palatine},
         {palsgrave}]
      3: the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome; supposedly the
         location of the first settlement and the site of many
         imperial palaces
      4: 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}, {palatine bone}, {os
         palatinum}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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