U'VEOUS, adjective [Latin uva, a grape. Resembling a grape. The uveous coat of the eye, or uvea, is the posterior lamin of the iris; so called by the ancients, because in the animals which they dissected, it resembles an unripe grape.
U'VULA, noun [Latin] A soft round spungy body, suspended from the palate near the foramina of the nostrils, over the glottis.
The small conical body projecting from the middle of the soft palate.