- pate - liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned
--1 is a kind of spread, paste
--1 has particulars: duck pate; foie gras, pate de foie gras- pate, poll, crown - the top of the head
--2 is a kind of top, top side, upper side, upside
--2 is a part of human head
--2 has particulars: tonsure - pate, poll, crown - the top of the head