a. and sb. [TRANS- 5: cf. PALATINE a.2] a. adj. Extending transversely across either half of the palate. b. sb. The transpalatine bone in certain sauropsidan vertebrates.
1891. in Cent. Dict.
1893. British Museum Catalogue, Snakes, I. 71. Maxillary, palatine, and pterygoid movable; transpalatine present.
1899. in Syd. Soc. Lex.
